Demographics of Ghana

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR.) Demographics Health Survey:[9]

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):[10]

Births and deaths [11]

Fertility data as of 2014 (DHS Program):[12]

30,802,793 (Feb 2020 )

25,009,153 (December 2013 est.[17][18]) Females- 50.5% Male- 49.5%

Population pyramid of Ghana in 2017

0-14 years: 37.83% (male 5,344,146 /female 5,286,383)

15-24 years: 18.61% (male 2,600,390 /female 2,629,660)

25-54 years: 34.21% (male 4,663,234 /female 4,950,888)

55-64 years: 5.05% (male 690,327 /female 727,957)

65 years and over: 4.3% (male 557,155 /female 652,331) (2018 est.)

2.16% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 40th

2.1% (2013 est.)[19]

30.2 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 35th

16.03 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)

6.8 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 134th

7.53 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)

3.96 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 34th

Fertility rate declined from 3.99 (2000) to 3.28 (2010) with 2.78 in Urban region and 3.94 in rural region.[10]

total: 21.2 years. Country comparison to the world: 185th

male: 20.7 years

female: 21.7 years (2018 est.)

22.3 years (2017 est.)

note: median age at first birth among women 25-29

33% (2017)

-1.8 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 154th

-1.85 migrant(s)/1,020 population (2013 est.)

39.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)

total dependency ratio: 73 (2015 est.)

youth dependency ratio: 67.1 (2015 est.)

elderly dependency ratio: 5.9 (2015 est.)

potential support ratio: 17.1 (2015 est.)

urban population: 56.1% of total population (2018)

rate of urbanization: 3.34% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

total population: 67.4 years (2018 est.)

male: 64.9 years (2018 est.)

female: 70 years (2018 est.)

total population: 65.46 years (2013 est.); 66 years

male: 64.48 years (2013 est.); 66 years

female: 66.48 years (2013 est.); 67 years (2013 est.)

noun: Ghanaian
adjective: Ghanaian

• Ghanaian citizens (20,000,000 million)[17][18]

Ghanaian people

• Christian 71.2%[7]
  • Pentecostal/Charismatic 28.3%[7]
  • Protestant 18.4%[7]
  • Roman Catholic 13.1%[7]
• Islam 17.6%[7]
• Traditional 5.2%[7]
• None 5.2%[7]
• Other 0.8%[7]

Asante[7] 16%, Ewe[7] 14%, Fante[7] 11.6%, Brong[7] (Brong) 4.9%, Dagomba[7] 4.4%, Dangme[7] 4.2%, Dagarte[7] (Dagaba) 3.9%, Likpakpaanl[7] a.k.a. Konkomba language 3.5%, Akyem[7] 3.2%, Ga[7] 3.1%, Other[7] 31.2%

definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)

total population: 76.6% (2015 est.)

male: 82% (2015 est.)

female: 71.4% (2015 est.)

total: 12 years (2017)

male: 12 years (2017)

female: 11 years (2017)

total population: 71.5%

male: 78.3%

female: 65.3% (2010 census)

total: 15.2% (2015 est.)

male: 15.8% (2015 est.)

female: 14.6% (2015 est.)

Population density increased steadily from thirty-six per square kilometer in 1970 to fifty-two per square kilometer in 1984. In 1990 sixty-three persons per square kilometer was the estimate for Ghana's overall population density. These averages did not reflect variations in population distribution. For example, while the Northern Region, one of ten administrative regions, showed a density of seventeen persons per square kilometer in 1984, in the same year Greater Accra Region recorded nine times the national average of fifty-two per square kilometer.[20]

As was the case in the 1960 and 1970 figures, the greatest concentration of population in 1984 was to the south of the Kwahu Plateau. The highest concentration of habitation continued to be within the Accra-Kumasi-Takoradi triangle, largely because of the economic productivity of the region. All of Ghana's mining centers, timber-producing deciduous forests, and cocoa-growing lands lie to the south of the Kwahu Plateau. The Accra-Kumasi-Takoradi triangle is linked to the coast by rail and road systems—making this area an important magnet for investment and labor.[20]

A large part of the Volta Basin is sparsely populated. The far north is heavily populated. The population density of the Upper East Region is well above the national average. This may be explained in part by the better soil found in some areas.[20]

Localities of 5,000 persons and above have been classified as urban since 1960. The 1960 urban population totalled 1,551,174 persons, or 23.1 percent of total population. By 1970 the urban percentage had increased to 28 percent. That percentage rose to 32 in 1984 and was estimated at 33 percent for 1992.[21]

Urban areas in Ghana have customarily been supplied with more amenities than rural locations. Consequently, Kumasi, Accra, and many settlements within the southern economic belt attracted more people than the savanna regions of the north; only Tamale in the north has been an exception. The linkage of the national electricity grid to the northern areas of the country in the late 1980s may help to stabilize the north-to-south flow of internal migration.[21] Ghana has a hugely rural population that is dependent on subsistence agriculture. Ghana has continued to be a nation of rural communities. Rural residency was estimated to be 67 percent of the population in 1992. In the 1970s, 72 percent of Ghana's population lived in rural areas.[21] The "Rural Manifesto," which assessed the causes of rural underdevelopment, was introduced in April 1984. Development strategies were evaluated, and some were implemented to make rural residency more attractive. The Bank of Ghana established more than 120 rural banks to support rural entrepreneurs, and the rural electrification program was intensified in the late 1980s. The government presented its plans for district assemblies as a component of its strategy for rural improvement through decentralized administration.[21]