Employment Rate / Ghana
Ghana Employment Rate
Ghana employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 56.78%.
COUNTRY: Ghana
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ghana · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
47 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
2.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
13.0 / 15
Financial robustness
5.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
2.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Ghana · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
56.78%
Previous
57.39%
Range avg.
60.11%
Rank
56
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CountryGhana
IndicatorEmployment Rate
56.78%2025 · Rank 56
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ghana recorded 56.78% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.61 percentage points, from 57.39% to 56.78%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (60.11%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 56.78% in 2025 and the high was 64.60% in 2017.
Comparison
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