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Area of Ghana, sq. mi.: 92,098 Area of the U.S., sq. mi.: 3,794,100 **Population per square mile, compared to the U.S. ** Population sq. mi. (Ghana):264.28193880431714043736020326174 Population sq. mi. (U.S.): 81.767181413246883318837141878179 **GPD per capita, compared to the U.S. ** The GPD per capita (Ghana):$1,334 The GPD per capita (Ghana): $45,592 The GPD (Gross Domestic Product) is the total market value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year, equal to total consumer, investment, and government spending, plus the value of exports, minus the value of imports. **Life expectancy, compared to the U.S. ** Life expectancy (Ghana): 56 (male); 57 (female) Life expectancy (U.S.): 77 (male); 81 (female) **Birth rate, compared to the U.S. ** Birth rate (Ghana): 28.58 (This year) Birth rate (U.S.): 13.83 (This year) **Infant mortality rate, compared to the U.S. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Infant mortality rate (Ghana): 51 per 1,000 births <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Infant mortality rate (U.S.): 6 per 1,000 births **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Language(s) spoken ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Twi, English, and Fante **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Monetary unit ** Ghana cedi **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Government, compared to the U.S. ** Type of Government: Constitutional democracy: Constitutional - a government by or operating under an authoritative document (constitution) that sets forth the system of fundamental laws and principles that determines the nature, functions, and limits of that government. Democracy - a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but which is usually exercised indirectly through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed. The United States is a democratic republic while Ghana is a Constitutional Democracy, the definition of a democratic republic is; Democratic republic - a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Political Leader ** Kofi Kwame Nkrumah **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Religions practiced ** Christian, traditionalist, and Muslim **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Literacy rate, compared to the U.S. ** Ghana male literacy rate: 72% female literacy rate: 58% U.S. male literacy rate: 99% female literacy rate: 99% **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghana economic summary ** The next presidential and legislative elections are due in December 2012. The NPP has already selected its presidential candidate, Nana Akuffo Addo, and the party is now gearing up to try to win back power after being ejected from government in 2008. If Mr. Atta Mills is selected as the presidential candidate for the ruling NDC, the 2012 election will be a repeat of the 2008 contest. It now remains to be seen how the NPP will alter the tactics that failed to secure it the presidency in 2008. It will be important to unify the party behind Mr. Akuffo Addo, who has a long-running rivalry with another NPP member, Alan Kyerematen. Any public bickering between the two factions will probably cost the party support. However, were they to be able to work together, perhaps with Mr. Kyerematen as Mr. Akuffo Addo's running mate, they would provide a stern test for the NDC. Indeed, the NDC may well suffer from its own internal rivalries, especially if Mr. Atta Mills is challenged publicly for the party candidacy. Speculation that the wife of a former NDC president, Jerry Rawlings, will challenge Mr. Atta Mills has increased in recent months, and Mr. Atta Mills will need to work hard to face down a challenge from such a powerful political family. **<span style="font-family: 'CG Times Bold Italic','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Brief history of Ghana ** Ghana, is a west African country, bounded on the north by Burkina Faso, on the east by Togo, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean ,and on the west by Côte d'Ivoire. Formerly a British colony known as the Gold Coast, was led to independence by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on the 6th of March, 1951. Ghana became the first black nation in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence from colonial rule.
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