Facts in Q&A format

No. According to the World Bank’s latest Global Findex database, 73% of adults in Kenya had a mobile money account in 2017. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, the figure stood at about 50%.The share of adults owning a mobile money account in Ghana in 2017 was 39%. ...

Ghana’s debt-to-GDP rose to 71% as of 30 September 2020, according to the latest figures from the Bank of Ghana. However, the International Monetary Fund forecasts the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio will drop or rise slightly to 74.7% of the GDP in 2021. ...

In 2021, the country's GDP growth rate was 4.2%. In 2020 it was 0.9%. ...

In 2021, the country’s inflation rate – as measured by the consumer price index – was 8.7%. This refers to the “annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals”. In 2020, it was 10....

Services contributed most to economic growth in 2019 (2.8%), followed by industry (2.4%) and agriculture (1.3%). ...

Data from the World Bank puts Ghana's unemployment rate at 4.5% in 2020. ...

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank aims to ensure that “no poor country faces a debt burden it cannot manage”.The IMF announced in 2002 that Ghana would benefit from debt relief. The HIPC process was completed in 2004 and G...