Ghana vs Japan: Economic Indicators Comparison

Japan with a GDP of $5T ranked the 3rd largest economy in the world, while Ghana ranked 73rd with $65.6B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Japan and Ghana ranked 152nd vs 46th and 28th vs 142nd, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

StatGhanaJapan
GDP$65.6B$5T
GDP growth, 1 year5.6%0.8%
GDP growth, 5-years average4.5%1%
Population26.9M126.8M
GDP per capita$2.2k$39k
GDP per capita growth3.96%0.99%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor2.13101.37
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate0.460.92
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted$6.5k$44k
GNI, Atlas method$63.4B$5.2T
GNI per capita$2.1k$41k
GNI, PPP adjusted$138.5B$5.6T
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted$4.7k$44k

Financial system and Human development

StatGhanaJapan
Income Tax Rate35%40.8%
Corporate Tax Rate25%23.9%
Inflation, consumer prices9.8%1%
Inflation, GDP deflator10.2%-0.1%
Unemployment6.7%2.5%
Economic Freedom Index59.473.3
Personal Freedom Index7.648.83
Human Freedom Index7.218.31
Property Rights Index52.586.6
Judical Effectiveness Index46.171.4
Business Freedom Index58.481.4
Fiscal Health Index35.662
Labor Freedom Index59.378.7
Investment Freedom Index7070
Financial Freedom Index6060
Trade Freedom Index63.880
Monetary Freedom Index68.984.4
Government Spending Index88.155.8
Tax Burden Index78.468.3
Government Integrity Index32.280.5
Corruption Perceptions Index4173
Life expectancy at birth, years63.584.1
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people5.418.5
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people24.94.1
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people2.10.2
International tourism, number of arrivals897k31.2M

Government debt & reserves

StatGhanaJapan
Central government debt, % of GDP59.6%237.1%
External debt stocks, % of GNI36.3%N/A
External debt stocks$23.3BN/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves57.7%N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income9.4%N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI-8.4%7.3%
Gross savings, % of GDP21%28%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP14.9%24.4%
Total reserves including gold$6.3B$1.3T
Foreign direct investment net inflows$3B$25.9B

Exports, imports and economic structure

StatGhanaJapan
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP35.3%18.4%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP36.4%18.2%
Current account balance (balance of payments)-$2B$174.7B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP27.2%12.8%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP$713.6MN/A
Personal remittances received$3.5B$4.4B
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP31.5%29.1%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP18.3%1.2%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP$700k$21.7B
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoPN/A$45.5B
Expense, % of GDP30.5%16.4%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP20%38.4%

Compare with countries close by GDP per capita

Ghana vs

CountryGDP
per capita
Population
Tunisia
$3.4k
11.6M
Angola
$3.4k
29.8M
Bhutan
$3.2k
808k
Morocco
$3.2k
36M
Moldova
$3.2k
2.55M
Palestine
$3.2k
4.68M
Vanuatu
$3.1k
276k
Philippines
$3.1k
105M
Ukraine
$3.1k
42.6M
Djibouti
$3.1k
957k
Papua New Guinea
$2.7k
8.25M
Vietnam
$2.6k
94.7M
Egypt
$2.5k
94.8M
Laos
$2.5k
6.86M
Honduras
$2.5k
9.27M
Congo
$2.1k
5.26M
Zimbabwe
$2.1k
16.5M
Solomon Islands
$2.1k
611k
East Timor
$2k
1.3M
Syria
$2k
18.3M
Nicaragua
$2k
6.22M
Nigeria
$2k
191M
India
$2k
1.33B
Sao Tome and Principe
$2k
204k
Ivory Coast
$1.7k
24.3M
Kenya
$1.7k
48.5M
North Korea
$1.7k
25.5M
Bangladesh
$1.7k
165M
Kiribati
$1.6k
116k
Zambia
$1.5k
17.1M

Japan vs

CountryGDP
per capita
Population
Australia
$57k
24.5M
Sweden
$55k
10.3M
Netherlands
$53k
17.3M
Austria
$51k
8.81M
Finland
$50k
5.5M
San Marino
$48k
33.4k
Germany
$48k
83.1M
Belgium
$48k
11.4M
Canada
$46k
37.9M
United Arab Emirates
$43k
9.4M
United Kingdom
$43k
66M
Andorra
$42k
76.2k
New Zealand
$42k
4.94M
Israel
$42k
9.09M
France
$41k
66.6M
Italy
$34k
60.3M
Kuwait
$34k
4.6M
Bahamas
$32k
395k
Brunei
$32k
429k
South Korea
$31k
51.5M
Spain
$30k
46.7M
Malta
$30k
465k
Cyprus
$28k
1.14M
Slovenia
$26k
2.07M
Taiwan
$25k
23.6M
Bahrain
$24k
1.49M
Portugal
$23k
10.6M
Saudi Arabia
$23k
33M
Estonia
$23k
1.32M
Czech Republic
$23k
10.7M