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LanguageRecord TypeReliabilityValue 
TotalCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete23,823,5941
AsanteCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete3,820,8071
EweCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete3,323,0721
FanteCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete2,757,2191
Boron (Brong)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete1,172,5371
DagombaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete1,051,1231
DangmeCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete1,007,1701
Dagarte (Dagaba)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete924,4171
KokombaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete831,3931
AkyemCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete763,4061
GaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete744,8841
AkuapemCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete626,2281
Nankansi and GurCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete588,3651
KusasiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete534,6181
KwahuCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete442,7601
MamprusiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete315,9921
GonjaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete309,5271
SefwiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete305,3561
Other tribes originating from outside Ghana (Hausa, Fulani, Zabrama, etc.)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete290,7861
WasaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete273,4821
NzemaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete271,6711
SisalaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete218,9321
BusangaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete200,6321
BimobaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete176,2231
AhantaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete174,7651
Basare (Kyamba)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete169,2991
Builsa (Kangyaga)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete168,4091
Kasena (Paga)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete148,6661
Asen (Assin)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete142,3621
Yefi, NtwumuruCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete140,0501
MosiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete139,9621
KotokoliCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete133,7091
Cherepong, Larteh, Anum-BosoCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete132,0801
Awutu, EfutuCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete128,7041
DenkyiraCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete124,3621
Other GrusiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete116,1561
AgonaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete111,3831
NanumbaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete100,3671
ChokosiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete91,2751
AhafoCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete86,8511
Walba (Wala)Census - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete84,8101
Akpafu, LolobiCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete71,9331
WangaraCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete68,0451
AowinCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete66,4031
Grusi necCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete53,7451
Namnam FrafraCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete49,1651
All other tribes originating from GhanaCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete43,7581
AkwamuCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete43,4671
MoCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete42,8571
Gurma necCensus - de facto - complete tabulationFinal figure, complete41,9721

Footnotes

1 - Data refer only to persons who were Ghanaians by birth and Ghanaians by dual citizenship.
Source

Demographic Statistics Database

Source:  United Nations Statistics Division

The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a wide range of topics. Data have been collected since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually to over 230 national statistical offices and have been published in the Demographic Yearbook collection. The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an annual basis. The Demographic Yearbook census datasets cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing characteristics, ethnicity, language, foreign-born and foreign population. The available Population and Housing Censuses' datasets reported to UNSD for the censuses conducted worldwide since 1995, are now available in UNdata.

This latest update includes several datasets on international travel and migration inflows and outflows, and on incoming and departing international migrants by several characteristics, as reported by the national authorities to the UN Statistics Division for the reference years 2010 to the present as available.
Last update in UNdata: 2024/02/23
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