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Ghana

35,064,272

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+636.86K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+78.6%from 19.64M
Life expectancy65.7 years2024
Fertility rate3.34births per woman · 2024
Urban population58.9%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Ghana is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1435.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6460.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate25.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+18.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-17.08Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Ghana look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 50.55M in 2050—46.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202434.43M
  2. 205050.55M
  3. 210067.55M
Median age in 205027.0years
Births in 2050997.39Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050387.59Kduring the year
Life expectancy70.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19606.96M
  2. 19708.93M
  3. 198011.94M
  4. 199015.39M
  5. 200019.64M
  6. 201025.47M
  7. 202031.89M
  8. 202535.06M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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