There are an estimated three million Ghanaians living in the diaspora. There are 23168 Ghanaians in the Netherlands according to the Dutch Central Statistics Agency (2016 figures).
The potential of the diaspora has been explicitly mentioned in the President’s Coordinated Programme of economic and social development policies for 2017-2024: “To strengthen Ghana’s role in international affairs, policy interventions will aim at: … creating a favourable business environment; and integrating the Ghanaian diaspora into national development.”