At the beginning of 2022, Ghana's efforts to improve internet penetration had succeeded in reaching 53 percent of the country's entire population, which represented a rise of nearly 16.99 million internet users during that time.

The number of internet users in Ghana increased by 350,000 (+2.1 percent) between 2021 and 2022, according to the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report.

Despite the growth, the research indicated that at the start of 2022, 15.07 million Ghanaians lacked access to or usage of the internet.

Despite a population of 32.06 million in Ghana as of January 2022, this constituted 47.0 percent of the country's population who lacked access.

It outlined that, “issues relating to COVID-19 continue to impact research into internet adoption, so actual internet user figures may be higher than the published numbers suggest”.

Meanwhile, on the social media front, Ghanaian user activity reached 8.80 million in January 2022.

This was equivalent 27.4 percent of the total population at the beginning of 2022.

The Digital 2023 Global Overview Report however noted that the figure for social media users may not necessarily represent unique individuals that use various platforms.