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Ghana: Central government expenditure

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

2025
259 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−0.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+20.6%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025259,408
2024261,862
2023164,556
2022168,897
2021126,504
2020100,036
201970,271
201859,310
201751,986
201644,473

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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