World Bank • ICT at a Glance
Ghana 2000
2007
Low-income group 2007
20 44 320 4.4 58 46
23 49 590 5.5 65 53
1,296 32 574 5.6 64 51
Ghana
Economic and social context Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–07 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% of ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) Sector structure Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscrib.) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Price basket for residential fixed line (US$/month) Price basket for mobile service (US$/month) Price basket for Internet service (US$/month) Price of call to United States (US$ for 3 minutes) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications ICT expenditure (% of GDP) E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, Dec. 2008)
Sub-Saharan Africa Region 2007
800 36 951 5.1 62 51
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 2000–07 Current US$ 1,000 800 600 400 200
Yes Mixed
Yes Public
P C C
P P C
0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 2000–07 Number per 100 people 40
1.8 91 29.5
— 1,261 —
3.3 301 —
4.7 499 —
30 20 10 0
1.1 0.6 0.1 0.3 23
1.6 32.4 0.1 0.6 25
4.0 21.5 0.8 1.5 16
1.6 23.0 1.2 1.8 18
0.9 50 0.1
0.1 111 3.8
— — 5.2
— — 4.4
— 0.0 0
68 69.2 21
54 3.4 26
56 3.1 36
— — — 1.65
6.3 5.7 9.4 0.39
5.7 11.2 29.2 2.00
12.6 11.6 43.1 2.43
— — —
0.0 6.3 —
1.4 6.7 —
1.1 8.2 4.2
— — 0.0
— 0.29 0.7
— 0.11 0.5
— 0.16 2.9
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Telephone lines Mobile cellular subscriptions Internet users
Price Basket for Internet Service, 2003–07 US$/month 80 60 40 20 0
2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa Region
ICT Service Exports, 2000–07 Percentage of total service exports 8 6 4 2 0
2000
2002 2004 2006 2007 Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: Global Insight/WITSA, IMF, ITU, Netcraft, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. — Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0–1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
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