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Ghana: Central government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 75 observations · cgovdef

2025
−33.9 billionlocal currency

Central government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025-33,950
2024-74,097
2023-29,884
2022-72,246
2021-55,865
2020-44,898
2019-16,892
2018-11,673
2017-12,291
2016-15,608

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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