Ghanaian people
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
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World c. 24,000,000 |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
 Republic of Ghana : 20 million (2013 estimate) |
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 South Africa
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2,000,000 (2010) |
 Jamaica
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1,000,000 (2012) |
 Brazil
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442,189 (2013) |
 United States
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116,807 (2011) |
 United Kingdom
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93,000 (2011) |
 Italy
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50,414 (2015) |
 Netherlands
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40,000 (2003) |
 Suriname
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31,400 (2014) |
 Germany
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29,590 (2015) |
 Canada
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23,225 (2006) |
 French Guiana
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19,200 (2014) |
 Spain
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12,699 (2007) |
 Lebanon
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10,297 (2013) |
 France
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10,000 (2007) |
 Belgium
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5600 (2015) |
 Australia
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3,866 (2011) |
 Israel
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3,000 (2003) |
 Japan
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2,524 (2010) |
 Norway
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2,424 (2014) |
 Sweden
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1,754 (2009) |
 Denmark
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1,600 (2015) |
 Guyana
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850 (2014) |
 Cuba
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533 (2011) |
 Turkey
|
500 (2012) |
 New Zealand
|
277 (2007) |
 Russia
|
200 (2011) |
| Languages | |
| English | |
| Religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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^[n1] Ghanaian citizens or Ghanaian card nationals. |
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The Ghanaian people are a nationality originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the republic of Ghana, and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 20 million people as of 2013.Ethnic Ghanaians make up 85.4% of the total population. The word, "Ghana", means "Warrior King".
Approximately 20 million Ghanaians are residents of the Fourth Republic of Ghana; an additional estimated diaspora population of 4 million people worldwide are of Ghanaian descent. The term ethnic Ghanaian may also be used in some contexts to refer to a locus of ethnic groups native to the Gold Coast. The Republic of Ghana is a natural resource, mineral resource and fossil fuel-rich nation and is home to one of the world's largest gold and sweet crude oil reserves and they are the second major producers of cocoa in the world.
The Republic of Ghana is an economical powerhouse in West Africa, and has one of the biggest economies on the African continent and one of the world's fastest growing economies.
The origin and ethnogenesis of the ancient ethnic Ghanaians is traced back to nomadic migration from Nubia along the Sahara desert then south to the Gold Coast, and the Ghanaian ethnogenesis taking place on the Ghanaian Gold Coast region from the 10th century AD to the 16th century AD. The Ghanaians started a lucrative trade with Ghanaian gold bars and other Ghanaian natural minerals to the Portuguese in 1471; and then the Ghanaians became the wealthiest ethnic group and nation state on the African continent from the 17th century onwards following successful further expansion of lucrative Ghanaian gold bars trading to the Dutch, Prussian and Scandinavians from the 16th century through to the 20th century.
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