Ghana External Debt
Ghana external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 46.92%.
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Ghana · external debt data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Ghana recorded 46.92% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 8.38 percentage points, from 55.30% to 46.92%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (57.28%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 46.92% in 2024 and the high was 65.29% in 2015.