Dataset catalog

One row for each of Ghana's 16 regions: land area, district count, population by sex, density, counts of schools, health facilities, banks, markets and other mapped infrastructure, service provision per 10,000 people, and mean annual rainfall and vegetation index where the satellite series covers the region. Compiled from the sources named in the source column. 16 records.

Every Ghanaian university, hospital, institute and company that appears as an affiliation on published research — 171 of them — with how many works it has produced, how often they have been cited, its h-index and i10-index, and citations per work. Sourced from OpenAlex, CC0. 171 records.

What Ghanaian research is about: the number of published works by field of study, across every year OpenAlex holds. Sourced from OpenAlex, CC0. 26 records.

How much research Ghanaian institutions published each year from 1853 to 2027, and how much of it is open access. A handful of works carry a publication year that cannot be right — a stray nineteenth-century date, or one in the future — and they are left as the source has them rather than quietly removed. Sourced from OpenAlex, CC0. 144 records.

Every brand, chain and operator with more than one mapped outlet in Ghana — banks, fuel stations, mobile money agents, supermarkets, pharmacies, hotels and restaurants — with how many outlets each has, how many regions and districts it reaches, and which regions those are. Compiled across every OpenStreetMap layer in this catalogue, counting each site once. Outlet counts are a floor, not a register: OpenStreetMap records a brand where a mapper knew it, so a chain may have more branches than appear here. Compiled by API Ghana from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). 327 records.

Ghana's position against the Sustainable Development Goal indicators the World Bank tracks, across all seventeen goals, year by year. 386 series covering 1990-2020. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 6159 records.

Monthly mean sea level measured at Ghana's two tide gauges — Takoradi from 1929 to August 2012 and Tema from 1963 to September 1982 — in millimetres, with the number of days missing from each month and the quality flag the record carries. Heights are on each station's own Revised Local Reference datum, set roughly seven metres below mean sea level so values stay positive: the trend at a station is meaningful, a comparison of absolute heights between stations is not. Both are closed records: no quality-controlled Ghanaian tide-gauge data after 2012 is published under terms that allow reuse (the IOC's raw near-real-time feed from the gauges forbids commercial use). Sourced from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, freely available with acknowledgement. 1027 records.

For every mapped Ghanaian town and village, the straight-line distance in kilometres to the nearest health facility, pharmacy, school, university, market, bank or ATM, fuel station, water point and police station — and the name of the nearest one in each case. Distances are great-circle, not road distance, so treat them as a lower bound; both the settlements and the services come from OpenStreetMap, so a long distance can mean a remote village or an unmapped facility. Compiled by API Ghana from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). 7241 records.

The World Bank's ASPIRE indicators for Ghana: coverage, adequacy and benefit incidence of social assistance, social insurance and labour market programmes, by income quintile. 1404 series covering 2005-2016. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 2729 records.

Tracks of tropical storms recorded near Ghana: position, wind speed and pressure at each observation, from the international best-track archive. Sourced from NOAA IBTrACS, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 10775 records.

Surface water area in square kilometres for each Ghanaian district, month by month, measured from satellite — the seasonal rise and fall of rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Nationally this tracks Lake Volta, which moves by thousands of square kilometres between the wet and dry seasons. Sourced from Action Against Hunger, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 18460 records.

Access to electricity and clean cooking in Ghana, urban and rural, the renewable share of energy consumption, energy intensity and investment in the energy sector. 11 series covering 1990-2016. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 277 records.

UN Economic Commission for Africa education indicators for Ghana: enrolment, completion, literacy, teachers and education spending. Sourced from UN Economic Commission for Africa, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 261 records.

UN Economic Commission for Africa health indicators for Ghana: mortality, disease burden, health workforce, coverage and spending. Sourced from UN Economic Commission for Africa, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 51 records.

UN Economic Commission for Africa indicators for Ghana on population structure, fertility, urbanisation, migrant stock and remittances. Sourced from UN Economic Commission for Africa, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 40 records.

UN-Habitat indicators for Ghana on housing, slums, water and sanitation access, transport and urban demography. Sourced from UN-Habitat, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 522 records.

Ghana's national wealth as a balance sheet: produced capital, natural capital broken into forests, minerals, oil, gas and cropland, human capital and net foreign assets, per person and in total. 124 series covering 1995-2020. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 3224 records.

Daily pump prices for petrol, diesel and premium petrol at every fuel company CediRates lists (Goil, Shell, Star Oil, TotalEnergies and the rest), with the day each company last changed its price. Source: CediRates.

Daily buying and selling rates for the cedi against the US dollar, pound and euro at Ghana's banks, forex bureaus and fintechs, one row per company per day, with the day each last updated. Source: CediRates.

Every mineral right on the Minerals Commission of Ghana's register: the licence code, who holds it, what kind of right it is, its status, the minerals it covers and where it runs. Prospecting licences, mining leases, restricted leases, small-scale licences, gold export licences and mining support service registrations, each with the date it started.

Ghana's graduated income tax bands for individuals' monthly chargeable income, and the flat rate for non-residents, with the date each took effect and the Ghana Revenue Authority notice it comes from. Chargeable income is pay after the employee's SSNIT contribution and other reliefs. Kept by hand from GRA's published tables. 8 records.

How SSNIT works out an old-age pension: the months of contributions that qualify, the pension right they earn, how it grows with each further year up to its maximum, the retirement ages and the minimum pension for new pensioners. The pension is the pension right times the average of the member's three best years' salaries. One row per rule, each with its source. 8 records.

The social security contributions on a Ghanaian worker's basic salary: the employee's and the employer's shares, how they split between SSNIT (Tier 1) and the occupational scheme (Tier 2), the monthly minimum and maximum insurable earnings, and the Tier 3 contribution that is relieved from income tax. One row per rule, each with its source. 7 records.

The VAT and the levies charged with it on goods and services in Ghana, with how each is charged and the date it took effect. Since 1 January 2026 (Value Added Tax Act, 2025, Act 1151) VAT, NHIL and the GETFund levy are all charged on the value of the supply, 20% in all; the 1% COVID-19 levy and the flat rate schemes were abolished. 3 records.