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.
IMF comparisons · 2023
The total approved amount under Ghana's three-year Extended Credit Facility arrangement.
The IMF amount is programme financing disbursed in tranches and subject to reviews; it is not a public-project cost.
Illustrative equivalent
6.65 times the Ghana's 2023 IMF programme benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $3B
IMF comparisons · 2023
A historical comparison using the IMF's arrangement-level record, including the 2023 programme.
This approximate nominal-dollar comparison sums approved arrangements across decades. It is not inflation-adjusted, and approved amounts are not the same as amounts ultimately drawn.
Illustrative equivalent
1.88 times the All IMF arrangements approved for Ghana since 1966 benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $10.6B
IMF comparison
Switch between the number of IMF borrowing approvals and the amounts Ghana actually drew. The count covers 17 formal arrangements and one 2020 outright emergency loan; periods group the IMF record for readability.
Borrowing approvals
18approvals
The live audit total is about $1.11B per approval.
Drawn amounts are published in SDR. For a like-for-like comparison with the archive’s USD total, this view uses the implied 2023 IMF programme conversion of SDR 2.2419bn ≈ US$3bn. It is a nominal conversion, not an inflation-adjusted historical value.
IMF history of lending commitmentsMethodology
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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