Understand the numbers
Compare the scale of reported financial irregularities with familiar public programmes and infrastructure. These are illustrations—not a claim that every reported irregularity was cash lost or available to spend.
Live archive total · USD
This nominal total is calculated from all available extracted reports in the archive. It will update as the underlying database changes.
Hospitals · 2012
The major redevelopment of Ridge Hospital into the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, including specialist facilities and equipment.
A tertiary regional hospital has a different scope, site and equipment profile from a standard district hospital.
Illustrative equivalent
79.9 times the Greater Accra Regional Hospital redevelopment benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $250M
Hospitals · 2022
The second phase of the University of Ghana's quaternary medical centre, financed by a facility from Bank Hapoalim and commissioned in June 2022.
This is a specialised teaching and research facility financed by a loan facility, not a representative cost for an ordinary hospital.
Illustrative equivalent
92 times the University of Ghana Medical Centre — Phase II benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $217M
Methodology
Each equivalent divides the live US-dollar archive total by one published benchmark cost. Cedi benchmarks are converted using the documented rate for the benchmark’s source year—not today’s exchange rate.
Audit irregularities include several kinds of control failure and do not all represent confirmed theft or an immediately recoverable cash loss. Programme allocations, financing commitments, and reported project costs are also different kinds of figures; every row labels which one it uses.
Whole-build language is rounded down only when a whole number is shown. The calculation displayed under each result uses the unrounded values. Read the linked source and its caveat before citing a comparison.
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