Ghana’s coastline is 8.1 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition)

Ghana’s highest peak towers 191 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Ghana, versus 44% of Belgium

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Ghana: 55.4% (2024)

Ghana has 2.9 times as many people as Belgium

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Ghana: 35.1 million (2025)

Belgium is 2.5 times as densely populated as Ghana

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Ghana: 154 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 21 years older than in Ghana

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Ghana: 20.9 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 1.9 more children on average than in Belgium

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 3.8% in Ghana

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Ghana: 3.8% (2025)

Belgium hosts 26 times as many refugees per resident as Ghana

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ghana 0.3

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Ghana: 0.3 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, Ghana 1

Belgium: 3 (2026) · Ghana: 1 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 6.4 times the size of Ghana’s

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Ghana: $114 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 8.7 times as much per person as Ghana

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ghana than in Belgium (Gini 16.7 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Ghana: 43.5 (2016)

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Ghana: no data

Unemployment is 5.9% in Belgium, versus 3.0% in Ghana

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Ghana: 3% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Ghana 0.5%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Ghana: 0.5% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Ghana’s 12%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Ghana: 12.4% (2023)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 2.2× Ghana’s

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Ghana: 38% (2025)

Belgium spends 84 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Ghana: $70 (2023)

A baby in Ghana is 8.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Belgium

Belgium: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Belgium has 13 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Ghana: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023)

Belgium has 7.9 times as many hospital beds per person as Ghana

Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 14% higher than in Belgium

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Belgium are obese, versus 14% in Ghana

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Ghana: 13.8% (2024)

24% of adults in Belgium smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Ghana: 3.3% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 2.37 points higher than in Ghana

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Ghana: 4.55 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 3.7 times as much alcohol as in Ghana

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023)

Belgium has 3.5 times as much meat per person as Ghana

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023)

Belgium has 796 kcal more food per person per day than Ghana

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ghana put in 62 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 5.6 years longer than in Ghana

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Ghana: 7.1 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 29 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Belgium: 0.81 (2024) · Ghana: 0.03 (2022)

Belgium has 14 more World Heritage sites than Ghana (16 against 2)

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Ghana: 2 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Ghana 5

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Ghana: 5 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Belgium are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Belgium: 96% (2024) · Ghana: 72% (2024)

Home internet in Belgium is 2.8 times as fast as in Ghana

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Belgium have electricity, versus 92% in Ghana

Belgium: 100% (2024) · Ghana: 91.9% (2024)

88% of people in Belgium live in cities, versus 59% in Ghana

Belgium: 88% (2025) · Ghana: 59% (2025)

Ghana has 114 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Ghana: 114 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 3.8 times as long as Ghana’s

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Ghana: 947 km (2022)

Airlines from Belgium fly 76 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Ghana: 0.01 (2023)

Forest covers 31% of Ghana, but only 22% of Belgium

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Ghana: 30.9% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Ghana: 0.6 t (2024)

39% of Belgium’s electricity is renewable, versus 36% in Ghana

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Ghana: 36.2% (2024)

The air in Ghana carries 3 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 70% more likely to be murdered in Ghana than in Belgium

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ghana are 8.1 times as deadly as in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 16.9 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ghana: 27.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ghana gets 20% more rain than Belgium

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg)