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Capital:
Accra
Government:
Constitutional Decomcracy
Current Head of Government:
Nana Akufo-Addo
Economy:
- Has an abundance of natural resources.
- Agriculture accounts for roughly one quarter of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce.
- Services sector accounts for 50% GDP.
- Gold and cocoa are major sources of foreign exchange.
Population:
32,372,889 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size:
238,533 sq km (92,098 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Akan: 45.3%
- Mole-Dagbon: 15.2%
- Ewe: 11.7%
- Ga-Dangme: 7.3%
- Guan: 4.0%
- Gurma: 3.6%
- Grusi: 2.6%
- Mande-Busanga: 1.0%
- Other tribes: 1.3%
Religions:
- Christianity: 71.2%
- Pentecostal/Charismatic: 28.3%
- Protestantism: 18.4%
- Catholicism: 13.1%
- Other: 11.4%
- Muslim: 17.6%
- Indigenous African Religions: 5.2%
- Other: 0.8%
- None: 5.2%
Languages(s):
- Asante: 16.0%
- Ewe: 14.0%
- Fante: 11.6%
- Boron (Brong): 4.9%
- Dagomba: 4.4%
- Dangme: 4.2%
- Dagarte (Dagaba): 3.9%
- Akyem: 3.5%
- Ga: 3.1%
- Other (includes English (official)): 31.2%