New Zealand’s coastline is 28 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Ghana’s highest peak towers 855 m above New Zealand’s

Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Ghana, versus 37% of New Zealand

Ghana: 55.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Ghana has 6.6 times as many people as New Zealand

Ghana: 35.1 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Ghana is 7.6 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Ghana: 154 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 16 years older than in Ghana

Ghana: 20.9 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 1.8 more children on average than in New Zealand

Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 3.8% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Ghana hosts 49% more refugees per resident than New Zealand

Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ghana 0.3

Ghana: 0.3 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Ghana 1

Ghana: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand’s economy is 2.3 times the size of Ghana’s

Ghana: $114 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 6.7 times as much per person as Ghana

Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Ghana: 43.5 (2016) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 3.0% in Ghana

Ghana: 3% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand spends 1.1% of its GDP on the military, Ghana 0.5%

Ghana: 0.5% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Ghana’s 12%

Ghana: 12.4% (2023) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 2.3× Ghana’s

Ghana: 38% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 71 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Ghana: $70 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Ghana is 6.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 14 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

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

New Zealand has 3.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 32% higher than in New Zealand

Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 14% in Ghana

Ghana: 13.8% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

9.3% of adults in New Zealand smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.3% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 2.44 points higher than in Ghana

Ghana: 4.55 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 3.4 times as much alcohol as in Ghana

Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 4.6 times as much meat per person as Ghana

Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

Ghana and New Zealand are practically level

Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in New Zealand put in 52 more hours a year than in Ghana

Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 5.8 years longer than in Ghana

Ghana: 7.1 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 22 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Ghana: 0.03 (2022) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

New Zealand has 1 more World Heritage site than Ghana (3 against 2)

Ghana: 2 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Ghana 5

Ghana: 5 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Ghana: 72% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 3 times as fast as in Ghana

Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in New Zealand have electricity, versus 92% in Ghana

Ghana: 91.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 59% in Ghana

Ghana: 59% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ghana 114

Ghana: 114 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 4.4 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 947 km (2022) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 225 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Ghana: 0.01 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 31% of Ghana

Ghana: 30.9% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 10 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 36% in Ghana

Ghana: 36.2% (2024) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Ghana carries 4 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 25% more likely to be murdered in Ghana than in New Zealand

Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ghana are 5 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 16.9 °C warmer than New Zealand

Ghana: 27.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 43% more rain than Ghana

Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)