Ghana

TABLE 1. POPULATION INFORMATION

Average annual growth rate (%)
Year 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2008* 2000 to 2008*
Population (millions) 8.56 11.18 14.39 18.91 21.40 22.87
2.40
Population density (inhabitants/kmē) 35.88 46.87 60.33 79.27 89.71 95.87
2.40
Urban Population as % of total 28.90 31.20 36.50 43.75 47.63 50.20
0.81
Area (1000 kmē) 238.54

TABLE 2. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2008** 2000 to 2008**
GDP (millions of current US$)* 2214.1 4445.2 5886 4977.5 10720.4 16123 15.82
GDP (millions of constant 2000 US$)** 2550 2640 3267 4977 6364 7709 5.62
GDP per capita (PPP* US$/capita)*** 2313.1 1735.2 1695.6 1988.4 2480.7 3425.9 7.04
GDP per capita (current US$/capita) 258.7 397.6 409 263.2 507.4 677.4 12.54
Sectoral share of GDP
- Agriculture 47.66 57.58 44.85 35.9 38.82 34.05 -1.35
- Industry 18.08 11.8 16.77 25.22 24.57 26.81 1.22
- Service/Commerce 34.26 30.62 38.38 38.88 36.6 39.14 0.53

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* 0 112 30.875 0 1.86 0.5
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) 0 4.617 1.223 0 193.5 42.6

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2008* 2000 to 2008*
Energy consumption**
- Total 0.04707 0.05405 0.05751 0.11526 0.11215 0.12453 1.5
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids * 0.03670 0.03663 0.03964 0.08977 0.09125 0.10317 2.25
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro ** 0.01037 0.01742 0.01787 0.02549 0.02090 0.02136 -1.58
- Other
Renewables		 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Energy production
- Total 0.01037 0.01900 0.02060 0.02380 0.02026 0.02230 0.044
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro 0.01037 0.01900 0.02060 0.02380 0.02026 0.02230 0.044
- Other
Renewables		 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total
Electricity
Liquids		 0.03670
0
0.03670		 0.03504
-0.0016
0.03663		 0.03691
-0.00273
0.03964		 0.09146
0.00169
0.08977		 0.09189
0.00063
0.09125		 0.10222
-0.00095
0.103166		 2.25
-116.20
1.85

TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2008* 2000 to 2008*
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe)
- Thermal 0.06 0.06 0 0.47 0.55 0.96 11.80
- Hydro 0.59 0.91 1.07 0.95 1.18 1.18 2.22
- 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 5.69
Electricity production (TW.h)
- Thermal 0.04 0.04 0.01 0.61 1.16 2.18 18.56
- Hydro 2.88 5.28 5.72 6.61 5.63 6.20 0.05
- 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 8.38 3.02
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h) 2.79 4.65 4.62 6.92 5.92 7.27 2.00

TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2008
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 5.52 5.13 4.38 6.03 5.38 5.84
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 341.1 515.4 451 357. 309 378
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 100 100 100 100 100 100
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) 77.74 61.09 58.59 80.18 79.86 76.57