rant
in 2006, which aims to assist in transforming Ghana's agricultural
export sector.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$59.15 billion (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$10.18 billion (2006 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
5.7% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,600 (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 37.3%
industry: 25.3%
services: 37.5% (2006 est.)

Labor force:
10.87 million (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 60%
industry: 15%
services: 25% (1999 est.)

Unemployment rate:
20% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line:
31.4% (1992 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.2%
highest 10%: 30.1% (1999)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
30 (1999)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10.9% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
29% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $3.616 billion
expenditures: $3.947 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
38.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
cocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts,
bananas; timber

Industries:
mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food
processing, cement, small commercial ship building

Industrial production growth rate:
3.8% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.489 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 5%
hydro: 95%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
7.095 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
900 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
1.96 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
7,477 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
44,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - proved reserves:
8.255 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
23.79 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$-219 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$3.286 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
gold, cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore,
diamonds

Exports - partners:
Netherlands 12.5%, UK 8.3%, US 6.7%, Belgium 5.8%, France 5.6%,
Germany 4.4% (2005)

Imports:
$5.666 bill