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.
Major programmes · 2025
The approved 2025 allocation for priority infrastructure under the government's Big Push programme.
Converted at the archive's 2025 rate of GH₵11.10 per US dollar. An annual allocation is not the full multi-year programme cost.
Illustrative equivalent
16.1 times the 2025 Big Push allocation benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $1.24B
Major programmes · 2020
A national project supporting private investment, entrepreneurship and growth in non-resource sectors.
This is approved project financing, not a unit construction cost.
Illustrative equivalent
99.8 times the Ghana Economic Transformation Project benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $200M
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.
Read the archive methodology · Inspect the underlying figures