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- Updated on : 27 August 2012 Source : The World Factbook
Imports
$15.32 billion (2011 est.)$10.92 billion (2010 est.)
Exports
$12.75 billion (2011 est.)$7.96 billion (2010 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
8.7% (2011 est.)10.7% (2010 est.)
Unemployment rate
11% (2000 est.)GDP - per capita (PPP)
$3,100 (2011 est.)$2,800 (2010 est.)
$2,700 (2009 est.)
note: data are in 2011 US dollars
National product real growth rate
4.7% (2010 est.)4.1% (2009 est.)
7.3% (2008 est.)
Internet users
1.297 million (2009)Telephones - mobile cellular
17.436 million (2009)Population growth rate
1.787% (2012 est.)Population
25,241,998 (July 2012 est.)note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
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Historical background
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence.
Ghana endured a long series of coups before Lt.
Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties.
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Economic overview
Ghana is well endowed with natural resources and agriculture accounts for roughly one-third of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders.
The services sector accounts for 50% of GDP.
Gold and cocoa production and individual remittances are major sources of foreign exchange.
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