Thursday, March 22, 2012
Ghana's Demographics
Ghana's population is 25, 241, 998.
The median age for women is 21.6 years and 21.1 for men.
The birth rate is 26. 99 births/ 1, 000 population and the death rate is 8.57 deaths/ 1,000 population.
74.8% of the population 15 and older are able to read and write, 82.7% of men and 67.1% of women.
The number one cause of death in Ghana is from malaria (http://www.modernghana.com/news/184685/1/preventing-malaria-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-g.html) and the second is cancer (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/6/159). Major exports include gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds, horticulture.
Major imports include capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs.
28.5% of the population live below the poverty line http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=69.
The unemployment rate is at 11%.
64.2% attend primary school, while after that the rate for males is 60.1%, and there are more males than females at every level.
Household size in Ghana averages at 7.4 members http://www.ghanadistricts.com/region/?r=6&sa=120 and the cost of a house is 20-50 euros http://thekexperience.okeiweb.com/past/ghana/construction-in-ghana.html.
"By the end of 2008, Africa had 246 million mobile subscriptions and mobile penetration has risen from just five percent in 2003 to well over 30 percent today" http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2010/01/04/more-in-africa-use-mobile-phones-than-on-any-other-continent/.
"Current internet penetration is less than 5% of population and PC penetration is less than 3% of population" http://www.commerceghana.com/guidance/internet-usage-in-ghana.
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