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Government fiscal balance, 1992–2025

Ghana's overall central government fiscal balance as a share of GDP, year by year.

IMF World Economic Outlook · 1992–2025 · Annual

Figure 01

Overall fiscal balance

Government revenue minus expenditure as a share of GDP. Negative values are deficits.

Year% of GDP
1992-4.5%International Monetary Fund
1993-5.4%International Monetary Fund
1994-5.0%International Monetary Fund
1995-4.5%International Monetary Fund
1996-5.6%International Monetary Fund
1997-6.1%International Monetary Fund
1998-5.3%International Monetary Fund
1999-5.6%International Monetary Fund
2000-4.0%International Monetary Fund
2001-3.6%International Monetary Fund
2002-2.7%International Monetary Fund
2003-2.0%International Monetary Fund
2004-2.0%International Monetary Fund
2005-1.9%International Monetary Fund
2006-3.1%International Monetary Fund
2007-4.9%International Monetary Fund
2008-5.6%International Monetary Fund
2009-5.0%International Monetary Fund
2010-7.1%International Monetary Fund
2011-5.5%International Monetary Fund
2012-8.4%International Monetary Fund
2013-9.1%International Monetary Fund
2014-7.8%International Monetary Fund
2015-4.0%International Monetary Fund
2016-6.7%International Monetary Fund
2017-4.0%International Monetary Fund
2018-6.8%International Monetary Fund
2019-7.5%International Monetary Fund
2020-17.4%International Monetary Fund
2021-12.0%International Monetary Fund
2022-11.8%International Monetary Fund
2023-3.4%International Monetary Fund
2024-6.2%International Monetary Fund
2025-1.3%IMF projectionInternational Monetary Fund

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these published documents. Nothing is estimated or modelled by this site.

Attribution: IMF World Economic Outlook database (GGXCNL_NGDP), Ghana