Tax Revenue / Ghana
Ghana Tax Revenue
Ghana tax revenue data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 12.39%.
COUNTRY: Ghana
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-24 05:08:17
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 · tax revenue data as percent of GDP.
Latest
12.39%
Previous
12.30%
Range avg.
11.81%
Rank
71
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CountryGhana
IndicatorTax Revenue
12.39%2023 · Rank 71
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ghana recorded 12.39% for Tax Revenue in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.10 percentage points, from 12.30% to 12.39%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (11.81%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 11.06% in 2016 and the high was 12.39% in 2023.
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