Auditor-General · Annual public accounts
What Ghana lost, year by year
Headline financial irregularities reported by the Auditor-General across MDAs, District Assemblies, Public Boards, Pre-University and Tertiary institutions for FY2010–FY2025. Each financial year is attributed to the administration in power. USD figures use the Bank of Ghana year-end interbank rate for that year.
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.
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Irregularities by financial year (USD) — bar colour shows the governing party
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Category composition (USD)
How the reported irregularities break down by the Auditor-General's own categories. Select a segment to open the detail panel for that category and government.
| Year | Government | Total (GH₵) | Total (USD) | Reports | Source PDFs | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2010 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵173.17M | $117.71M | 1 | Records → | |
| FY2011 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵119.49M | $73.06M | 1 | Records → | |
| FY2012 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵434.54M | $231.14M | 2 | Records → | |
| FY2013 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵501.74M | $232.29M | 2 | Records → | |
| FY2014 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵2.09B | $653.44M | 5(1 gap) | Records → | |
| FY2015 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵3.9B | $1.03B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2016 | NDCNDC 2009–2016 | GH₵3.04B | $723.55M | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2017 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵13.03B | $2.95B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2018 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵8.34B | $1.73B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2019 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵8.69B | $1.57B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2020 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵14.98B | $2.6B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2021 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵18.63B | $3.1B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2022 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵16.52B | $1.93B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2023 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵11.25B | $944.63M | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2024 | NPPNPP 2017–2024 | GH₵20.54B | $1.4B | 5 | Records → | |
| FY2025 | NDCNDC 2025–present | GH₵7.57B | $681.81M | 5 | Records → |
Methodology
Figures are the headline "total financial irregularities" stated in each of the Auditor-General's annual public-accounts reports, taken verbatim from the published PDF. Five report streams are tracked each year: MDAs, District Assemblies (MMDAs), Public Boards & Corporations, Pre-University institutions and Tertiary institutions.
Each financial year is attributed to the administration in power during that year: NDC (2009–2016), NPP (2017–2024) and NDC (2025–present). Irregularities are reported findings, not proven losses or convictions — the Auditor-General's figures include recoverable amounts, unsupported payments and outstanding debts.
USD equivalents use the Bank of Ghana year-end interbank rate for the relevant financial year; no inflation adjustment is applied. Reports marked with an asterisk (*) were recovered from scanned documents via OCR or remain unavailable, and their totals should be treated with lower confidence.
Every figure links back to the original PDF on the Ghana Audit Service website. If you find an error, report it and we will re-check the source document.
Primary source · Ghana Audit Service report archive