How to find Statistical Information on Ghana

1. How to locate Authoritative Statistics on Ghana IRO Steve Perry, U.S. Embassy, Accra PerrySX2@state.gov FEB 2012 How to find Statistical Information on Ghana

2. Ghana Statistical Service: Http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/

3. Note the other links the Ghana Statistical Service provides

4. The Bank of Ghana also provides Economic Indicators on a quarterly basis: note the quick links on the right column: http://www.bog.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=173

5. To locate other statistical services the government of ghana produces, please do an advanced google search, as below:

6. With Nationamaster (www.nationmaster.com) you can compare any two countries on any statistical coordinate you wish

7. Results of that search in nationmaster

8. Nationmasteralso gives souRces of statistics in particular categories, as demonstrated below

9. HTTP://DATA.UN.ORG is another valuable resource for statistics

10. UN DATA FOR GHANA

11. Statistics on Ghana through the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

12. UNDER the DATA AND STATISTICS TAB, ALSO LOOK AT THE IMF eMAPPER: http://elibrary-data.imf.org/

13. BOTH THE WORLD BANK AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COMPILE valuable statistical data: W.H.O. data found here: http://www.who.int/countries/gha/en/

14. MORE W.H.O. INFORMATION FOR GHANA FOUND HERE: Http://www.who.int/countries/gha/en/

15. Note also the data and statistics tab on the imf web site and links to external data

16. Also note on the imf web site the country INFO tab

17. WORLD BANK INFORMATION for GHANA

18. WORLD BANK DATA ON GHANA

19. The World development indicators is also an important source of data about ghana from the WORLD BANK

20. Specific data for Ghana: from WORLD BANK: http://data.worldbank.org/country/ghana

21. The World Bank allows you to search or browse documents

22. Using the search engine under the DATA AND research tab of the world bank site reveals the followinG results for ghana.

23. Legal Guides on Ghana, with some legal stats, may be found in the law library of congress: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations/ghana.php

24. Background Notes from the Department of State are also valuable and reliable resources for statistical information: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2860.htm

25. U.N. Statistical Division: note econ statistics at top right http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

26. The UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LIBRARIES HAS A WEBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL PERTINENT STATISTICS: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/intstat.html Here are other resources as well: The Human Development Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en/ (Data on a variety of quality of life variables (e.g., access to health care, life expectancy, education) are provided. Data are arranged to ease comparisons between developing and industrialized nations, and North and South. The online version allows viewing by country or statistical category, and can be downloaded as an Excel or PDF file. Where can you find additional statistics?

27. U.N. Social Indicators: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/(United Nations Data collected from a variety of sources. Includes statistics on: Childbearing, Education, Health, Housing, Human settlements, Literacy, Income and economic activity, Population, Unemployment, Water supply and sanitation, and Youth and elderly populations.) U.N. Statistical Yearbook: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/syb/ (Statistical data for more than 270 countries/territories on population, labor, agriculture, forestry, fishing, industry, mining, manufacturing, transportation, communication, tourism, finance, energy, wages and prices, and more.) NOTE: The U.N. Statistical Yearbook is updated by the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/DataSearchTable.aspx Other Sources of Statistics

28. The University of maryland site also notes statistics: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/intstat.html (NOTE THE COMPREHENSIVE SOURCES UNDER THEIR TABLE OF CONTENTS)

29. Other sources of international statistics may be found in libguides: http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=libguides.com

30. From Libguidescomes foreign government statistics from the university of colorado libraries: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/foreign.htm

31. Finally, a google customized search engine that only searches think tanks and specialized research studies: www.tinyurl.com/6q6vzto

32. Results of a search on “ghana and statistics” in this customized search engine

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