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Ghana: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1962–2024 · 63 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
70.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−8.7 pointsfrom 79.1%
Average, 2015–2024
70.0%10 years
Record high and low
92.7% (2022)low 6.26% (1982)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203142.3Forecast
203044.0Forecast
202945.7Forecast
202848.1Forecast
202750.7Forecast
202653.0Forecast
202548.8Forecast
202470.3
202379.1
202292.7
202186.9
202079.1
201962.9
201862.0
201757.0
201655.9
201553.9

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1962–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1962–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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