Egypt’s coastline is 4.5 times as long as Ghana’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 1,744 m above Ghana’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Ghana, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Ghana: 55.4% (2024)

Egypt has 3.4 times as many people as Ghana

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Ghana: 35.1 million (2025)

Ghana is 30% more densely populated than Egypt

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Ghana: 154 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 3.1 years older than in Ghana

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Ghana: 20.9 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 0.6 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 3.8% in Ghana

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Ghana: 3.8% (2025)

Egypt hosts 3.1 times as many refugees per resident as Ghana

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ghana 0.3

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Ghana: 0.3 (2026)

Egypt and Ghana are practically level

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Ghana: 1 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 3.2 times the size of Ghana’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Ghana: $114 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 2.3 times as much per person as Ghana

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ghana than in Egypt (Gini 15 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Ghana: 43.5 (2016)

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Ghana: no data

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 3.0% in Ghana

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Ghana: 3% (2025)

Egypt and Ghana are practically level

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Ghana: 0.5% (2025)

Egypt and Ghana are practically level

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Ghana: 12.4% (2023)

Ghana’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Ghana: 38% (2025)

Egypt spends 2 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Ghana: $70 (2023)

A baby in Ghana is 32% more likely to die before turning one than in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 2.5 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Ghana: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023)

Egypt has 54% more hospital beds per person than Ghana

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 21 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 14% in Ghana

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Ghana: 13.8% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Ghana: 3.3% (2024)

People in Ghana rate their lives 0.69 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Ghana: 4.55 (2025)

Adults in Ghana drink 25 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023)

Egypt has 59% more meat per person than Ghana

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023)

Ghana has 31 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 713 more hours a year than in Ghana

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 3 years longer than in Ghana

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Ghana: 7.1 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 3.7 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Ghana: 0.03 (2022)

Egypt has 5 more World Heritage sites than Ghana (7 against 2)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Ghana: 2 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Ghana 5

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Ghana: 5 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Ghana: 72% (2024)

Home internet in Ghana is 14% faster than in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026)

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

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

59% of people in Ghana live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Ghana: 59% (2025)

Ghana has 114 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Ghana: 114 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 5.4 times as long as Ghana’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Ghana: 947 km (2022)

Airlines from Egypt fly 11 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Ghana: 0.01 (2023)

Forest covers 31% of Ghana, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Ghana: 30.9% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 3.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Ghana: 0.6 t (2024)

36% of Ghana’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Ghana: 36.2% (2024)

The air in Egypt carries 46% more fine dust than in Ghana

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 40% more likely to be murdered in Ghana than in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ghana are 4.4 times as deadly as in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 4.4 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ghana: 27.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ghana gets 92 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg)