Ghana's electricity generation rose from 7.2 in 2000 to 24.3 in 2024.
Ghana's primary energy consumption rose from 21.4 in 1994 to 103.9 in 2023.
Ghana · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 26 with data
Electricity consumption per capita
kilowatt-hours per person
144th of 194 · 10th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana's electricity consumption per capita rose from 365.1 kWh in 2000 to 705 kWh in 2024.
Ghana's solar electricity generation rose from 0 in 2000 to 0.2 in 2024.
Ghana's wind electricity generation was 0 in 2000 and 0 in 2024.
Ghana's hydropower electricity generation rose from 6.5 in 2000 to 8.6 in 2024.
Ghana's nuclear electricity generation was 0 in 2000 and 0 in 2024.
Ghana's energy use per capita rose from 1,260 kWh in 1994 to 3,075.2 kWh in 2023.
Ghana's renewable energy fell from 81.0 % in 1992 to 39.0 % in 2021.
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- Renewable electricitydown −2.3 pts82nd of 193
- Fossil fuel electricity shareup +2.3 pts94th of 193
- Low-carbon electricity sharedown −2.3 pts94th of 193
- Hydropower electricity sharedown −2.4 pts53rd of 190
- Nuclear electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts32nd of 191
- Solar electricity shareup +0.1 pts138th of 193
- Wind electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts106th of 191
- Coal electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 192
- Gas electricity shareup +2.2 pts36th of 190
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- Energy importsup +3.4 pts97th of 132
- Net electricity imports (% of demand)up +0.0 pts182nd of 194
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- Energy intensity of GDPdown −3.1 %45th of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricityup +3.6 %96th of 193
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- Access to electricity (% of population)up +2.4 pts158th of 215
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- Oil productiondown −3.6 %42nd of 204*
- Gas productiondown −11.1 %70th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*