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Ghana — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Ghana, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5.95%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +73.6% since 1961
GDP growth for Ghana was 5.95% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 14.05% in 2011. The lowest was -12.43% in 1975 (about -2.1× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.87% per year.
Ghana ranks 35 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 17%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Ghana sits above it. It peaked in 2011 and has fallen 58% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 181%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5.95%
First (1961)
3.43%
Change
+73.6%
Highest
14.05%
in 2011
Lowest
-12.43%
in 1975
Average
3.75%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.87%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.95% |
| 2024 | 5.85% |
| 2023 | 3.14% |
| 2022 | 3.8% |
| 2021 | 5.08% |
| 2020 | 0.51% |
| 2019 | 6.51% |
| 2018 | 6.2% |
| 2017 | 8.13% |
| 2016 | 3.37% |
| 2015 | 2.12% |
| 2014 | 2.86% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. 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
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). 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.