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Ghana: General government expenditure

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

2024
259 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+57.3%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+22.8%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031567,739Forecast
2030502,687Forecast
2029434,595Forecast
2028379,953Forecast
2027334,351Forecast
2026302,312Forecast
2025242,822Forecast
2024258,780
2023164,556
2022168,897
2021125,647
2020123,504
201980,189
201864,480
201746,206
201643,679
201534,179

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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