Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
23.2%
+10.2 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.35%
+0.0 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
48.8%
of GDP · +1 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
35.1m
101.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Ghana yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 0.7% to 2.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 1.9% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.3% to 0.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 4.1% to 8.1% of GDP between 1999 and 2011, then fell to 2.9% by 2022.
Total spending rose from 13.0% to 31.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 23.2% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 47.6% to 92.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2022, then fell to 48.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 17.4 million in 1995 to 35.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 50.6 million by 2050.