Saudi Arabia’s coastline is 4.9 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 539 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Saudi Arabia’s highest peak towers 2,115 m above Ghana’s

Ghana: 885 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 55% of Ghana

Ghana: 55.4% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 5% more people than Ghana

Ghana: 35.1 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Ghana is 9 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 154 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Saudi Arabia is 8.3 years older than in Ghana

Ghana: 20.9 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Ghana have 1.0 more children on average than in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 3.34 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

3.8% of people in Ghana are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 3.8% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Ghana hosts 50 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 0.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Ghana has produced 0.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Ghana: 0.3 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Ghana and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Ghana: 1 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 11 times the size of Ghana’s

Ghana: $114 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 8.6 times as much per person as Ghana

Ghana: Int$8,610 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Ghana: 43.5 (2016) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Saudi Arabia and Ghana are practically level

Ghana: 3% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Ghana 0.5%

Ghana: 0.5% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Ghana’s central government collects 12% of GDP in tax, Saudi Arabia’s 8.1%

Ghana: 12.4% (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

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

Ghana: 38% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 26 times as much on health per person as Ghana

Ghana: $70 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

A baby in Ghana is 5.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 27.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 13 times as many doctors per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 3.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Ghana

Ghana: 0.7 per 1,000 (2015) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ghana is 7.8 times that in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 17.2 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 14% in Ghana

Ghana: 13.8% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

15% of adults in Saudi Arabia smoke, versus 3.3% in Ghana

Ghana: 3.3% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 2.26 points higher than in Ghana

Ghana: 4.55 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Ghana: 2.6 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Saudi Arabia has 3.3 times as much meat per person as Ghana

Ghana: 17.4 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 535 kcal more food per person per day than Ghana

Ghana: 3,125 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Workers in Saudi Arabia put in 469 more hours a year than in Ghana

Ghana: 1,656 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 4.5 years longer than in Ghana

Ghana: 7.1 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 31 times as many tourists per resident as Ghana (2019)

Ghana: 0.03 (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 6 more World Heritage sites than Ghana (8 against 2)

Ghana: 2 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Ghana has won 5 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Ghana: 5 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 72% in Ghana

Ghana: 72% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Home internet in Saudi Arabia is 2.1 times as fast as in Ghana

Ghana: 92 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 92% in Ghana

Ghana: 91.9% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 59% in Ghana

Ghana: 59% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ghana 114

Ghana: 114 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s railway network is 3.1 times as long as Ghana’s

Ghana: 947 km (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 103 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ghana

Ghana: 0.01 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Forest covers 31% of Ghana, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 30.9% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 33 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ghana

Ghana: 0.6 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

36% of Ghana’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 36.2% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 79% more fine dust than in Ghana

Ghana: 28.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2 times as likely to be murdered in Ghana as in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 1.8 per 100k (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Ghana are 2.6 times as deadly as in Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 54.9 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Ghana is on average 1.1 °C warmer than Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 27.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ghana gets 18 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Ghana: 1,118 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)