GHANA

TABLE 1: POPULATION INFORMATION

Average annual growth rate (%)
Year 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2000 to 2010
Population (millions) 8.56 11.18 14.39 18.91 21.30 24.66
2.70
Population density (inhabitants/km˛) 35.88 46.87 60.33 79.27 89.29 103.38
2.69
Urban Population as % of total 28.90 31.20 36.50 43.75 47.63 51.00
1.94
Area (1000 km˛) 238.54

TABLE 2: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010** 2000 to 2010**
GDP (millions of current US$)1 2,214.10 4,445.23 5,248.94 4,977.49 10,720.35 32,174.58 20.52
GDP (millions of constant 2000 US$)2 2,549.68
2,639.87
3,266.89 4,977.49 6,364.08 8,779.40 5.84
GDP per capita (PPP* US$/capita)3 1206.0 992.8 907.1 1066.8 1208.0 1478.5 3.32
GDP per capita (current US$/capita)4 255 407 398 260 495 1319
17.63
Sectoral share of GDP5
Agriculture
Industry
Service/Commerce
47.66
18.08
34.26

57.58
11.80
30.62
44.85
16.77
38.38
35.90
25.22
38.88
38.82
24.57
36.60
29.8
19.1
51.1

-1.85
-2.74
2.77

TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Estimated available energy sources
 Fossil Fuels Nuclear  Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
Renewable
 Total amount in specific units* 0 383.57 66106.82 0 1580 300
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) 0 16.769 1173.667 0 0.0299 0.002554

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS (UNITS: EXA JOULE – EJ)

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010* 2000 to 2010*
Energy consumption**
- Total 0.046758
0.053348
0.056273
0.114674
0.11286
0.157141
3.20
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids * 0.036697
0.03662
0.039633
0.089749
0.091564
0.114457
2.46
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0.014873
0
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro ** 0.010061
0.016728
0.01664
0.024925
0.021296
0.027811
0.27
- Other
Renewables
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Energy production
- Total 0.010374
0.018998
0.020595
0.023795
0.020263
0.034968
3.92
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids 0 0 0 0 0 0.007732
not applicable
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0.002053
not applicable
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro 0.010374
0.018998
0.020595
0.023795
0.020263
0.025183
0.57
- Other
Renewables
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total 0.036697
0.038200
0.036903 0.091447 0.092196 0.111237 1.98

TABLE 6. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010* 2000 to 2010*
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe)              
- Thermal 0.06 0.06 0 0.47 0.55 0.9895 7.7.
- Hydro 0.59 0.91 1.07 0.95 1.18 1.18 2.2
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Total 0.65 0.97 1.07 1.42 1.73 2.14 4.3
Electricity production (TW.h)            
- Thermal 0.04 0.04 0.01 0.61 1.16 3.14277 17.8
- Hydro 2.88 5.28 5.72 6.61 5.63 6.995409 0.6
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Total (1) 2.92 5.32 5.73 7.22 6.79 10.13818 3.4
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h) 2.79 4.65 4.62 6.92 5.92 7.725313 1.1

TABLE 7: ENERGY RELATED RATIOS


1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 5.4624 4.7717 3.9106 6.0642 5.2986 6.3723
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 326.48 415.61 321.20 366.13 277.73 313.27
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 31.8966 38.4417 40.2376 39.9529 28.3929 47.4997
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) 78.4828 71.6053 65.5785 79.7452 81.6906 70.7880