Currency | Cedi (GHS, GH₵) |
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Trade organisations | AU, AfCFTA, WTO, ECOWAS |
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Statistics | |
Population | 33,346,450 (2023)[3] |
GDP | |
GDP rank | |
GDP growth | |
GDP per capita | |
GDP per capita rank | |
GDP by sector |
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41.2% (2023 est.)[9] | |
Population below poverty line | |
43.5 medium (2016)[12] | |
Unemployment | |
Main industries | mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum |
External | |
Exports | $14.1 billion (2021 est.)[17] |
Export goods | fuels including oil, gems, precious metals, cocoa, fruits, nuts, ores, slag, ash, animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes, wood, rubber, rubber articles, meat/seafood preparations aluminum
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Main export partners |
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Imports | $11.07 billion (December 2022 est.)[19] |
Import goods | refined petroleum, cars, rice, delivery trucks, coated-flat rolled iron, other foodstuffs |
Main import partners |
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FDI stock | |
$318.2billion (2022 est.)[20] | |
Gross external debt | $22.14 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[8] |
Public finances | |
59.3% of GDP (2023 est.)[21] | |
2.0% (of GDP) (2022 est.)}[20] | |
Revenues | 9.544 billion (2017 est.)[8] |
Expenses | 24.5% of GDP (2023 est.)[22] |
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$5.216 billion ( April 2023 est.) | |
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. |
The economy of Ghana has a diverse and rich resource base, including the manufacturing and export of digital technology goods, automotive and ship construction and export, and the export of resources such as hydrocarbons and industrial minerals.
The Ghanaian domestic economy in 2012 revolved around services, which accounted for 50% of GDP and employed 28% of the work force. Besides the industrialization associated with minerals and oil, industrial development in Ghana remains basic, often associated with plastics (such as chairs, plastic bags, razors, and pens).[26] 53.6% of Ghana's workforce were employed in agriculture in 2013.[27][28][outdated statistic]
Ghana embarked on a currency re-denomination exercise from the Cedi (₵) to the new currency, Ghana Cedi (GH₵) in July 2007. The transfer rate is 1 Ghana Cedi for every 10,000 Cedis.
Ghana became the largest gold-producing country in Africa after overtaking South Africa in 2019.[29] The country is also the second-largest cocoa producer (after Ivory Coast).[30] Ghana is rich in diamonds, manganese or manganese ore, bauxite, and oil. Most of its debt was cancelled in 2005, but government spending was later allowed to balloon. Coupled with a plunge in oil prices, this led to an economic crisis that forced the government to negotiate a $920 million extended credit facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April 2015.[31]
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