# Ghana Population — Open Data

Population, area, and density for Ghana's 16 administrative regions and 261
districts. Numbers are taken verbatim from the 2021 Ghana Statistical Service
Population & Housing Census (via citypopulation.de). District areas are
computed from GADM 4.1 ADM2 polygons using the spherical-excess formula.

## Agent quickstart

Start here:

- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/index.json   — endpoint catalogue and counts

Bulk listings (one request gets you everything):

- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions.json   — all 16 regions (summary)
- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/districts.json — all 261 districts (summary)
- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions.csv    — same as regions.json, CSV with header row
- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/districts.csv  — same as districts.json, CSV with header row

Detail:

- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/{slug}                     — region + its districts
- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/districts/{regionSlug}/{districtSlug} — single district

Discovery + introspection:

- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/schema.json  — JSON Schema (draft 2020-12) covering every response
- https://ghanapopulation.com/api/search.json  — full search index used by the in-browser ⌘K palette

Every JSON record carries a `path` (web page) and an `apiPath` (JSON
endpoint) so you can crawl the same graph without parsing HTML.

CORS is open (`access-control-allow-origin: *`).

## Field reference

- `population.2010` — 2010 census, null when not available
- `population.2021` — 2021 census
- `areaKm2`        — square kilometres, 3 dp, null when not available
- `densityPerKm2`  — people per km², 1 dp, null when area is null
- `growthPct`      — relative change 2010→2021 in percent, 2 dp, null when 2010 is null

The HTML detail pages also embed a schema.org JSON-LD graph
(`<script type="application/ld+json">`) describing each Place and the parent
Dataset, so structured-data crawlers and LLM agents can ingest the same facts
without hitting the API.

## Regions

- Western         https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/western
- Central         https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/central
- Greater Accra   https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/greater-accra
- Volta           https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/volta
- Eastern         https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/eastern
- Ashanti         https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/ashanti
- Western North   https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/western-north
- Ahafo           https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/ahafo
- Upper East      https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/upper-east
- Upper West      https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/upper-west
- Northern        https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/northern
- Oti             https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/oti
- Bono            https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/bono
- Bono East       https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/bono-east
- North East      https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/north-east
- Savannah        https://ghanapopulation.com/api/regions/savannah

## Web pages (for citation in agent responses)

- https://ghanapopulation.com/        — overview, interactive map, regions table
- https://ghanapopulation.com/regions — region listing
- https://ghanapopulation.com/region/{slug}   — per-region detail
- https://ghanapopulation.com/district/{regionSlug}/{districtSlug} — per-district detail
- https://ghanapopulation.com/sitemap.xml

## Licensing

The page-rendered prose is © 2026 but the underlying
census numbers are public-domain government statistics; redistribute freely.
Cite the Ghana Statistical Service.