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| Introduction - Ghana: | | Location - Ghana: | | People - Ghana: | | Government - Ghana: | | Economy - Ghana: | Economy overview | Well endowed with natural resources, Ghana has roughly twice the per capita output of the poorest countries in West Africa. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and technical assistance. Gold, timber, and cocoa production are major sources of foreign exchange. The domestic economy continues to revolve around subsistence agriculture, which accounts for 37% of GDP and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholders. Ghana opted for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program in 2002, but was included in a G-8 debt relief program decided upon at the Gleneagles Summit in July 2005. Priorities under its current $38 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) include tighter monetary and fiscal policies, accelerated privatization, and improvement of social services. Receipts from the gold sector helped sustain GDP growth in 2006 along with record high prices for Ghanas largest cocoa crop to date. Ghana received a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant in 2006, which aims to assist in transforming Ghanas agricultural export sector. | | Gdp purchasing power parity | $60 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp official exchange rate | $10.21 billion (2006 est.) | | Gdp real growth rate | 6% (2006 est.) | | Gdp per capita ppp | $2,700 (2006 est.) | | Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 37.3%
industry: 25.3%
services: 37.5% (2006 est.) | | Labor force | 10.87 million (2006 est.) | | Labor force by occupation | agriculture: 60%
industry: 15%
services: 25% (1999 est.) | | Unemployment rate | 20% (1997 est.) | | Population below poverty line | 31.4% (1992 est.) | | Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: 2.2%
highest 10%: 30.1% (1999) | | Distribution of family income gini index | 30 (1999) | | Inflation rate consumer prices | 10.9% (2006 est.) | | Investment gross fixed | 29% of GDP (2006 est.) | | Budget | revenues: $3.616 billion
expenditures: $3.947 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.) | | Public debt | 38.6% of GDP (2006 est.) | | Agriculture products | cocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber | | Industries | mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building | | Industrial production growth rate | 3.8% (2000 est.) | | Electricity production | 6.489 billion kWh (2004) | | Electricity consumption | 7.095 billion kWh (2004) | | Electricity exports | 900 million kWh (2004) | | Electricity imports | 1.96 billion kWh (2004) | | Oil production | 7,477 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil consumption | 44,000 bbl/day (2004 est.) | | Oil exports | NA bbl/day | | Oil imports | NA bbl/day | | Oil proved reserves | 16.51 million bbl (1 January 2005) | | Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Natural gas proved reserves | 23.79 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.) | | Current account balance | -$219 million (2006 est.) | | Exports | $3.286 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.) | | Exports commodities | gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds | | Exports partners | Netherlands 11.2%, UK 8.6%, US 6.7%, Spain 5.7%, Belgium 5.2%, France 4.4% (2006) | | Imports | $5.666 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.) | | Imports commodities | capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs | | Imports partners | Nigeria 16.4%, China 12.8%, UK 5.6%, Belgium 4.7%, US 4.6%, Brazil 4.3%, South Africa 4.1%, France 4% (2006) | | Reserves of foreign exchange and gold | $2.098 billion (2006 est.) | | Debt external | $3.546 billion (2006 est.) | | Economic aid recipient | $6.9 billion (1999) | | Currency code | cedi (GHC) | | Exchange rates | cedis per US dollar - 9,174.8 (2006), 9,072.5 (2005), 9,004.6 (2004), 8,677.4 (2003), 7,932.7 (2002) | |
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