Ghana’s audit record, shown thirteen different ways.
Every chart below is built from official Auditor-General public-accounts reports — nothing modelled, nothing estimated. Compare administrations, follow the trend, break the total apart, and see how the findings are distributed and related.
- Total reported
- $19.96B
- NPP-era
- $16.22B
- NDC-era
- $3.74B
- Reports parsed
- 66
Data available from financial year 2010 onward.
The Auditor-General’s online archive does not contain usable annual public-accounts reports for 2000–2009. Earlier documents are either not published digitally, are special/performance audits, or are too degraded to extract comparable financial totals. Figures shown therefore cover FY2010 to the present until additional primary sources are located.
Click any bar, slice, bubble, tile or cell to open the matching records, the Auditor-General reports behind them, and a link straight to each record’s page.
Comparing values across groups
Where the reported money sits: by part of the public sector, by financial year, and measured against the archive-wide average.
Reported irregularities by audit stream
Which part of the public sector accounts for the most reported irregularities, and how does each government's share compare?
Reported irregularities per financial year
How big was the reported figure in each single financial year, and which government was in office that year?
Each stream against the all-stream average
Is a given audit stream reporting more or less than the typical stream across the whole archive?
Reference line = $3,992,505,370 (mean cumulative total per stream).
How the record changes over time
Year-on-year movement and the running cumulative total, from the first published report to the most recent.
Reported irregularities over time, by government
Has the reported figure risen or fallen year to year, and how do the two administrations' lines track against each other?
FY2000–FY2009 shows no line because the Ghana Audit Service online archive holds no usable annual reports for those years.
Cumulative reported total, stacked by audit stream
How has the running total accumulated since FY2010, and which streams drive the growth?
Parts of the whole
What the total is made of — by government, by type of irregularity, and by the relative weight of each audit stream.
Share of the reported total by government
Of everything the Auditor-General has reported since FY2010, what proportion falls in each administration's years?
Share by type of irregularity
What kinds of irregularity make up the total — cash, payroll, tax, procurement, contracts, debts or rent?
Proportional weight of each audit stream
Sized by money rather than by count — how much of the archive does each part of the public sector represent?
How the numbers spread out
Whether the total comes from many ordinary findings or a few extraordinary ones, and how steady each stream is year to year.
How large is a typical single finding?
Are most itemised findings modest sums, or is the total driven by a handful of very large ones?
Spread of annual totals within each audit stream
Is a stream steady year to year, or does one exceptional year dominate its record?
Each observation is one financial year's total for that stream.
Connections between year, stream and type
Cross-cutting views that put two or three variables on the same surface, so patterns show up that a single bar chart would hide.
Every itemised finding, plotted by year and size
Where do the individual findings cluster, and do the largest ones fall in particular years?
Stream against year, sized by amount
Which stream-and-year combinations carry the most weight, and where are reports missing entirely?
Year by irregularity type
Which type of irregularity dominated in which year? The densest single view of the archive.
| FY | Cash | Payroll | Procurement & stores | Contract | Tax | Debts / loans | Rent | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | $64.26M | $338.68K | $465.18K | $192.75K | $49.22M | $3.17M | $56.31K | — |
| 2011 | $20.77M | $624.31K | $476.94K | $15.25M | $32.31M | $3.49M | $134.75K | — |
| 2012 | $19.21M | $756.47K | $2.05M | $3.72M | $181.18M | $24.22M | — | — |
| 2013 | $133.35M | $889.85K | $1.94M | $59.96M | $26.79M | $9.2M | $154.2K | — |
| 2014 | $13.92M | $4.08M | $11.8M | $3.19M | $70.9M | $548.34M | $53.46K | — |
| 2015 | $77.77M | $1.02M | $9.04M | $18.63M | $180.39M | $740.24M | $30.44K | $38.32K |
| 2016 | $559.63M | $1.24M | $44.85M | $21.38M | $16.23M | $78.03M | $2.17M | $2K |
| 2017 | $85.63M | $1.74M | $16.58M | $17.79M | $150.29M | $2.68B | $152.63K | — |
| 2018 | $315.59M | $1.55M | $6.75M | $37.77M | $994.62M | $374.17M | $817.79K | — |
| 2019 | $94.4M | $12.33M | $22.31M | $35.56M | $518.26M | $879.7M | $7.86M | — |
| 2020 | $323.73M | $2.66M | $153.52M | $48.41M | $125.75M | $1.94B | $5.13M | — |
| 2021 | $93.88M | $3.12M | $51.82M | $53.78M | $168.66M | $2.73B | $1.35M | — |
| 2022 | $11.28M | $4.33M | $5.35M | $1.6M | $147.04M | $1.76B | $249.83K | — |
| 2023 | $9.94M | $2.38M | $5.09M | $16.05M | $181.39M | $729.6M | $258.73K | — |
| 2024 | $326.56M | $4.92M | $23.58M | $61.51M | $112.9M | $866.67M | $921.75K | — |
| 2025 | $46.04M | $3.37M | $16.51M | $14.4M | $514.15M | $94.06M | $14.4K | — |
Colour intensity is scaled to the single largest year-and-type cell in the archive.
Reading these charts responsibly
Every figure here is a reported irregularity as published by the Auditor-General. It is not a finding of theft, and it is not a court judgment. Some irregularities are later recovered, corrected or explained; this site does not track that, because the published reports do not consistently record it.
Comparisons between administrations are affected by how many financial years each spent in office, by inflation, and by the cedi–dollar rate used for conversion. Switch the currency toggle to see both views before drawing a conclusion.