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Ghana: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1962–2024 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2024
827 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+17.8%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+26.4%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,253,296Forecast
20301,150,203Forecast
20291,056,034Forecast
2028979,285Forecast
2027909,254Forecast
2026841,424Forecast
2025696,173Forecast
2024827,381
2023702,139
2022569,632
2021401,098
2020309,982
2019224,363
2018191,251
2017149,752
2016122,846
201598,913

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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