Ghana’s coastline is 2.4 times as long as Romania’s

Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition) · Romania: 225 km (2026 edition)

Romania’s highest peak towers 1,659 m above Ghana’s

Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition) · Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition)

Ghana and Romania are practically level

Ghana: 55.4% (2024) · Romania: 55.2% (2024)

Ghana has 84% more people than Romania

Ghana: 35.1 million (2025) · Romania: 19 million (2025)

Ghana is 86% more densely populated than Romania

Ghana: 154 per km² (2025) · Romania: 83 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 22 years older than in Ghana

Ghana: 20.9 years (2023) · Romania: 42.6 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 2.0 more children on average than in Romania

Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024) · Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 3.8% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.8% (2025) · Romania: 20.1% (2025)

Romania hosts 18 times as many refugees per resident as Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Romania has produced 2.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ghana 0.3

Ghana: 0.3 (2026) · Romania: 2.1 (2026)

Ghana and Romania are practically level

Ghana: 1 (2026) · Romania: 1 (2026)

Romania’s economy is 3.8 times the size of Ghana’s

Ghana: $114 billion (2025) · Romania: $429 billion (2025)

Romania produces 5.9 times as much per person as Ghana

Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025) · Romania: Int$50,895 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ghana than in Romania (Gini 13.7 points higher)

Ghana: 43.5 (2016) · Romania: 29.8 (2023)

Ghana: no data · Romania: 0.7% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 3.0% in Ghana

Ghana: 3% (2025) · Romania: 6% (2025)

Romania spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, Ghana 0.5%

Ghana: 0.5% (2025) · Romania: 2.3% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Ghana’s 12%

Ghana: 12.4% (2023) · Romania: 16.2% (2024)

Romania’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Ghana’s

Ghana: 38% (2025) · Romania: 44% (2025)

Romania spends 15 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Ghana: $70 (2023) · Romania: $1,051 (2023)

A baby in Ghana is 4.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Romania

Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania has 14 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

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

Romania has 10 times as many hospital beds per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015) · Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 2.1 times that in Romania

Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 14% in Ghana

Ghana: 13.8% (2024) · Romania: 37.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.3% (2024) · Romania: 29.7% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 2.07 points higher than in Ghana

Ghana: 4.55 (2025) · Romania: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 6.6 times as much alcohol as in Ghana

Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023) · Romania: 17.1 litres (2023)

Romania has 4.2 times as much meat per person as Ghana

Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023) · Romania: 72.5 kg (2023)

Romania has 524 kcal more food per person per day than Ghana

Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023) · Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023)

Workers in Romania put in 170 more hours a year than in Ghana

Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023) · Romania: 1,826 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 4.4 years longer than in Ghana

Ghana: 7.1 years (2023) · Romania: 11.6 years (2023)

Romania welcomed 25 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Ghana: 0.03 (2022) · Romania: 0.7 (2024)

Romania has 9 more World Heritage sites than Ghana (11 against 2)

Ghana: 2 (2026) · Romania: 11 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Ghana 5

Ghana: 5 (2026 edition) · Romania: 318 (2026 edition)

91% of people in Romania are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Ghana: 72% (2024) · Romania: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 3.4 times as fast as in Ghana

Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026) · Romania: 316 Mbps (2026)

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

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

59% of people in Ghana live in cities, versus 52% in Romania

Ghana: 59% (2025) · Romania: 52% (2025)

Romania has 120 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ghana 114

Ghana: 114 (2024) · Romania: 120 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 11 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 947 km (2022) · Romania: 10,769 km (2021)

Airlines from Romania fly 12 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Ghana: 0.01 (2023) · Romania: 0.15 (2023)

Forest covers 31% of Ghana, but only 30% of Romania

Ghana: 30.9% (2024) · Romania: 30.2% (2024)

The average person in Romania emits 5.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 t (2024) · Romania: 3.6 t (2024)

47% of Romania’s electricity is renewable, versus 36% in Ghana

Ghana: 36.2% (2024) · Romania: 47% (2025)

The air in Ghana carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Romania

Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 63% more likely to be murdered in Ghana than in Romania

Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022) · Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024)

Roads in Ghana are 4 times as deadly as in Romania

Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 17.0 °C warmer than Romania

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

Ghana gets 47% more rain than Romania

Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg)