Population in Ghana compared to Jordan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Ghana and Jordan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Ghana	Jordan	Ghana	Jordan
1960	6,961,215	853,471	-	-
1961	7,162,667	897,591	2.89%	5.17%
1962	7,337,375	940,554	2.44%	4.79%
1963	7,514,714	984,714	2.42%	4.7%
1964	7,695,739	1,035,640	2.41%	5.17%
1965	7,882,606	1,099,440	2.43%	6.16%
1966	8,074,521	1,178,360	2.43%	7.18%
1967	8,271,913	1,271,183	2.44%	7.88%
1968	8,475,729	1,372,460	2.46%	7.97%
1969	8,690,383	1,473,100	2.53%	7.33%
1970	8,925,813	1,565,163	2.71%	6.25%
1971	9,176,264	1,645,145	2.81%	5.11%
1972	9,438,187	1,714,555	2.85%	4.22%
1973	9,714,617	1,778,094	2.93%	3.71%
1974	10,000,523	1,839,182	2.94%	3.44%
1975	10,294,308	1,899,055	2.94%	3.26%
1976	10,594,913	1,958,177	2.92%	3.11%
1977	10,911,871	2,019,002	2.99%	3.11%
1978	11,248,450	2,083,595	3.08%	3.2%
1979	11,597,255	2,153,882	3.1%	3.37%
1980	11,941,448	2,234,186	2.97%	3.73%
1981	12,281,712	2,325,517	2.85%	4.09%
1982	12,643,819	2,426,927	2.95%	4.36%
1983	13,029,836	2,537,307	3.05%	4.55%
1984	13,370,590	2,654,688	2.62%	4.63%
1985	13,661,229	2,778,810	2.17%	4.68%
1986	13,965,217	2,909,887	2.23%	4.72%
1987	14,289,108	3,047,634	2.32%	4.73%
1988	14,636,568	3,193,039	2.43%	4.77%
1989	15,006,813	3,349,627	2.53%	4.9%
1990	15,394,648	3,621,908	2.58%	8.13%
1991	15,787,496	3,915,149	2.55%	8.1%
1992	16,184,855	4,127,693	2.52%	5.43%
1993	16,589,519	4,348,020	2.5%	5.34%
1994	16,993,190	4,561,406	2.43%	4.91%
1995	17,399,017	4,752,096	2.39%	4.18%
1996	17,810,181	4,912,516	2.36%	3.38%
1997	18,238,958	5,046,285	2.41%	2.72%
1998	18,688,036	5,164,284	2.46%	2.34%
1999	19,149,864	5,276,444	2.47%	2.17%
2000	19,637,087	5,386,945	2.54%	2.09%
2001	20,167,069	5,498,894	2.7%	2.08%
2002	20,729,388	5,616,066	2.79%	2.13%
2003	21,296,705	5,741,828	2.74%	2.24%
2004	21,868,298	5,882,061	2.68%	2.44%
2005	22,449,438	6,029,587	2.66%	2.51%
2006	23,040,702	6,427,371	2.63%	6.6%
2007	23,642,279	6,827,227	2.61%	6.22%
2008	24,249,946	6,989,866	2.57%	2.38%
2009	24,862,664	7,141,753	2.53%	2.17%
2010	25,474,995	7,297,043	2.46%	2.17%
2011	26,095,088	7,480,424	2.43%	2.51%
2012	26,734,268	7,587,127	2.45%	1.43%
2013	27,386,193	7,991,809	2.44%	5.33%
2014	28,041,592	8,791,710	2.39%	10%
2015	28,696,068	9,544,729	2.33%	8.57%
2016	29,356,742	10,006,367	2.3%	4.84%
2017	30,008,354	10,234,226	2.22%	2.28%
2018	30,637,585	10,462,306	2.1%	2.23%
2019	31,258,945	10,671,891	2.03%	2%
2020	31,887,809	10,865,228	2.01%	1.81%
2021	32,518,665	11,066,356	1.98%	1.85%
2022	33,149,152	11,256,263	1.94%	1.72%
2023	33,787,914	11,439,213	1.93%	1.63%
2024	34,427,414	11,552,876	1.89%	0.99%
2025	35,064,273	11,520,678	1.85%	-0.28%
2026	35,697,555	11,589,528	1.81%	0.6%
2027	36,328,265	11,819,454	1.77%	1.98%
2028	36,959,310	12,034,459	1.74%	1.82%
2029	37,589,709	12,245,726	1.71%	1.76%
2030	38,222,075	12,448,772	1.68%	1.66%
2031	38,856,804	12,652,545	1.66%	1.64%
2032	39,492,788	12,854,926	1.64%	1.6%
2033	40,132,720	13,050,713	1.62%	1.52%
2034	40,774,152	13,245,158	1.6%	1.49%
2035	41,412,555	13,440,821	1.57%	1.48%
2036	42,047,450	13,638,248	1.53%	1.47%
2037	42,682,177	13,840,237	1.51%	1.48%
2038	43,314,971	14,048,303	1.48%	1.5%
2039	43,942,852	14,256,684	1.45%	1.48%
2040	44,568,346	14,471,288	1.42%	1.51%
2041	45,190,628	14,684,501	1.4%	1.47%
2042	45,808,597	14,883,641	1.37%	1.36%
2043	46,421,960	15,077,789	1.34%	1.3%
2044	47,030,351	15,273,526	1.31%	1.3%
2045	47,634,271	15,471,971	1.28%	1.3%
2046	48,231,602	15,662,312	1.25%	1.23%
2047	48,823,456	15,841,619	1.23%	1.14%
2048	49,408,506	16,021,374	1.2%	1.13%
2049	49,984,435	16,197,518	1.17%	1.1%
2050	50,553,041	16,367,341	1.14%	1.05%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ghana increased by 6,246,630 people (a 27.8% growth), while Jordan gained 3,515,142 people (a 58.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ghana gained 6,876,906 (a 24% growth), while Jordan's population increased by 2,031,254 (a 21.3% growth).

Ghana was ranked 49th most populous country in 2005 and is 47th in 2025. Jordan was ranked 101st in 2005 and ranked 85th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Ghana's population will grow by 42.1% to 50,553,041 people with a rank change from 47th to 42nd. The population of Jordan will increase by 41.4% to 16,367,341 people and rank change from 85th to 79th.