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Ghana: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1975–2025 · 51 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
8.22%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+6.3 pointsfrom 1.92%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.31%10 years
Record high and low
8.22% (2025)low −12.5% (1999)

Current account (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20314.93Forecast
20306.21Forecast
20297.55Forecast
20288.17Forecast
20279.48Forecast
202610.1Forecast
20258.22
20241.92
2023-0.912
2022-2.33
2021-2.82
2020-3.05
2019-2.73
2018-3.04
2017-3.32
2016-5.04

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1975–1996
  • Abdulai1975–2017
  • World Development Indicators1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2010–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

Compare these sources →

Ghana documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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