Leading destination countries for Ghanaian emigrants 2010-2019
number of Ghanaians who had emigrated reached an approximate total of 970.63 thousand.
As of 2019, Nigeria was the leading destination for Ghanaian emigrants, possibly facilitated by the 1979 ECOWAS Protocol on the free movement of citizens of member states. The country hosted a little over 233 thousand Ghanaians in the said year, equaling around one in four emigrants from Ghana. Ranking second and third globally were the United States and the United Kingdom, with nearly 174 thousand and 141 thousand emigrants from Ghana, respectively. Overall, in 2019, the