Ghana Government Expense
Ghana government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 22.68%.
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Ghana · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Ghana recorded 22.68% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator increased by 1.93 percentage points, from 20.75% to 22.68%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (19.09%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 17.36% in 2017 and the high was 22.68% in 2022.