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Ghana — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Ghana, 1971–2022.
Latest value · 2022
2.91%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · -31.1% since 1971
Education spending for Ghana was 2.91% in 2022, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 34 years, from 1971 to 2022. The highest recorded value was 8.14% in 2011. The lowest was 1.81% in 1981 (about 1.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.73% per year.
Ghana ranks 136 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 79%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.61%, so Ghana sits below it. It peaked in 2011 and has fallen 64% since. Over the last decade (2012–2022) the figure moved down 63%.
Key figures
Latest (2022)
2.91%
First (1971)
4.22%
Change
-31.1%
Highest
8.14%
in 2011
Lowest
1.81%
in 1981
Average
4.53%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.73%
Years of data
34
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.91% |
| 2021 | 3.4% |
| 2020 | 3.41% |
| 2019 | 3.15% |
| 2018 | 3.89% |
| 2017 | 3.53% |
| 2016 | 4.39% |
| 2015 | 4.43% |
| 2014 | 4.4% |
| 2013 | 4.58% |
| 2012 | 7.92% |
| 2011 | 8.14% |
Reading this correctly. Total general government expenditure on education, expressed as a percentage of GDP. Includes both current and capital spending. Figures are in % of GDP. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS — Government Education Spending (% of GDP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.