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A map, a number, and Ghana
First Brief: India leads the 2025 population table, the World is 8.06 billion, and Accra is our teaching capital.
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When two numbers share a field — and the Bank walks in
Ghana’s GDP per capita is $8,020 on one row and $7,100 on another. That is a citation problem, not a scandal.
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