- ISO 3166
GH- Main language + region
ak-GH- Currency
- GHS · Ghanaian Cedi
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Ghana
Ghana has 34.6M people, and 25M of them are online. Akan is the most widely spoken language at 39%, one of 9 languages CLDR lists here. English is official nationally, and Akan and Ewe are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to ak-GH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
25M
0%world median 81%100%
72% of 34.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,257
Higher than 27% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
81%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
9
Akan 39% · English 21% · Ewe 11%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
540
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
72%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Ghana
share of 34.6M people
- Akanregional39%13.5M
- Englishofficial21%7.3M
- Eweregional11%3.8M
- Abron5%1.7M
- Frafra3.5%1.2M
- Adangme3%1M
- Garegional2.8%968.5K
- Nzima1%345.9K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 1 more language sits below the top eight, at 0.9% combined.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ak-GH).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21, Oforisuo, 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 ANW
Week starts Mon
Currency
GH₵1,234.56
1,234.56 in GHS · Ghanaian Cedi