The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      agriculture: 37.3% industry: 25.3% services: 37.5% (2006 est.)

      Labor force:

      11.29 million (2007 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: 56% industry: 15% services: 29% (2005 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

      11% (2000 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      28.5% (2007 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: 2.2% highest 10%: 30.1% (1999)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

      39.4 (2005–06)

      Investment (gross fixed):

      31.6% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $4.262 billion expenditures: $5.481 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      58.5% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      10.7% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      13.5% (31 December 2007)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      NA

      Stock of money:

      $2.179 billion (31 December 2006)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $2.174 billion (31 December 2006)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $4.173 billion (31 December 2006)

      Agriculture - products:

      cocoa, rice, 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:

      7.8% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      8.204 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      6.76 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      755 million kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      629 million kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 5% hydro: 95% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      7,571 bbl/day (2007 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      49,300 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      5,709 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      45,520 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      15 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      22.65 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      -$1.549 billion (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $4.162 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds, horticulture

      Exports - partners:

      Netherlands 11%, UK 9%, France 6.2%, US 5.9%, Germany 4.6%, Belgium 4.4% (2007)

      Imports:

      $8.053 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs

      Imports - partners:

      Nigeria 15.1%, China 14.9%, UK 5.2%, US 5.1% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $1.316 billion in loans and grants (2007)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $2.204 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $4.891 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $NA

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $NA

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $13.01 billion (2007)

      Currency (code):

      Ghana cedi (GHC)

      Currency code:

      GHC

      Exchange rates:

      cedis (GHC) per US dollar - 0.95 (2007), 9,174.8 (2006), 9,072.5 (2005), 9,004.6 (2004), 8,677.4 (2003) note: in 2007 Ghana revalued its currency with 10,000 old cedis equal to 1 new cedis

      Communications

       Ghana

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      376,500 (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      7.604 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: outdated and unreliable fixed-line infrastructure heavily concentrated in Accra; competition among multiple mobile-cellular providers has spurred growth with subscribership about 35 per 100 persons and rising domestic: primarily microwave radio relay; wireless local loop has been installed international: country code - 233; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay link to Panaftel system connects Ghana to its neighbors (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 0, FM 86, shortwave 3 (2007)

      Radios:

      12.5 million (2001)

      Television broadcast stations:

      7 (2007)

      Televisions:

      1.9 million (2001)

      Internet country code:

      .gh