Abstract:The authors investigated plant species selected for charcoal production. Then, they compared these species with those exploited for charcoal production in Togo, another West African country. The study in Ghana took place in six localities in the Volta Region. Simple ranking was used in the analysis of the species. A total of 35 species belonging to 31 genera were used. Five of these are non-traditional charcoal-making species, implying the increasing diversity of the plants used. Anogeissus leiocarpus ranked first with over 79% of the producers exploiting it and was reported as a preferred or a category 1 species for charcoal production in Togo. Out of the 34 woody species exploited in Togo, 10 are similar to those used in the study area. The ranking used are compared favourably with the categorization used in the Togolese studies.