Living in Ghana

Ghana is one of the easier places in the region to function in, because English carries you through work and daily life without a second language to learn first. The money picture is tighter than that ease suggests. Pay sits low, living costs a little more than its neighbours, and once the essentials are covered there is not much spare. Hiring rewards connections, so someone from outside should expect the search to take a while, even with the language working in their favour.

Ghana sends more people abroad than it receives, with a diaspora of about 1.1M that has grown 25% over the past decade. Ghanaians abroad are spread widely rather than concentrated in one place, led by the United States (258.4K), neighboring Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. At home, the 453.3K foreign-born residents come mostly from nearby Togo and Nigeria.