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Ghana: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1952–2024 · 73 observations · cgovdebt

2024
829 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+22.3%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+26.4%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024829,328
2023677,970
2022526,753
2021365,564
2020283,520
2019208,022
2018191,251
2017149,752
2016122,846
201598,913

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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