Ghana
General information
Capital: Accra
Currency unit: New Ghanaian cedi
Official language: English
Area: 227,540 km²
Population in million: 29,767,100.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 2,202
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 4,747
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 67.5
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.2 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 34.9 %
Life expectancy at birth: 63.5 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 79 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 65,556,500,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 18.3
Industry value added of GDP: 31.5
Services value added of GDP: 2.7
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 17,141,400.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 13,236,500.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Wood sheets for veneering (0.80 %)
Beauty or make-up preparations (0.31 %)
Fibreboard of wood (0.24 %)
Carpets and other textile floor coverings (0.18 %)
Tableware, kitchenware and other household articles, of plastics (0.17 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Cocoa beans (16.36 %)
Cocoa paste (2.80 %)
Cocoa butter, fat and oil (1.38 %)
Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts (1.30 %)
Prepared or preserved fish (1.09 %)