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.
Roads · 2016
The interchange project and approximately 10 kilometres of interconnected urban roads in Greater Accra.
The total combines external financing and government counterpart funding; it should not be treated as a generic cost per kilometre.
Illustrative equivalent
210 times the Pokuase Interchange and connecting roads benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $94.7M
Roads · 2026
An implied unit benchmark from US$500 million financing expected to rehabilitate and maintain more than 1,000 kilometres of rural roads.
This is a simple financing-per-kilometre proxy. The programme also covers maintenance, market access and institutional activities, and actual road costs vary.
Illustrative equivalent
39,925 times the One kilometre of rehabilitated rural road benchmarktimes
$19.96B ÷ $500K
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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