Ghana — Market Overview
🇬🇭 Ghana
Ghana is best understood through commodity receipts and macro stabilization, because inflation, debt restructuring, and cedi credibility can dominate equity performance. The cleanest read usually comes from gold, cocoa, and oil exports, inflation and cedi stability, and whether fiscal consolidation is restoring confidence.
Mapa regional
Factos-chave
Ghana num relance
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Fonte: Ghana Statistical Service,
Country dashboard
Porque este mercado importa
This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Ghana into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.
Explorador macro
Troca de variável sem perder o contexto do país
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Ghana starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Variáveis disponíveis
Comércio e posição externa
Exportações, serviços e balança externa
Em vez de um muro genérico de cartões macro, esta secção foca-se em como o país capta procura do exterior, onde está a sua vantagem comercial e como evolui a balança externa.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Ghana is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Ghana is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Parceiros comerciais
Com quem o país comercia
Lente das commodities
Exposição a matérias-primas
Trade in goods and services equaled 69.8% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 31.7% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 6.0% of merchandise exports in 2023.
Fuel exports accounted for 24.5% of merchandise exports in 2023, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 18.1% of merchandise exports in 2023, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Fonte: World Bank API: totalExports,
O que observar
Chave de leitura
commodity receipts
Ghana should first be read through commodity receipts. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
cedi stability
The cleanest read usually comes from gold, cocoa, and oil exports, inflation and cedi stability, and whether fiscal consolidation is restoring confidence. That makes cedi stability one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
fiscal consolidation
The final layer is fiscal consolidation, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the GSE Composite Index.
Outros países
Continua por Africa
Cada cartão abre o mesmo modelo de país com o seu próprio mapa, variáveis macro alternáveis e vista de referência. É a primeira rede ligada de páginas de país da região.
Africa
🇪🇬 Egypt
A populous emerging market where FX policy, inflation, state investment, and the Suez-tourism mix drive sentiment.
Africa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
A fast-growing but state-shaped economy where reforms, inflation, agriculture, and FX shortages drive the macro picture.
Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya
An East African market where banks, telecoms, agriculture, and shilling stability drive the investment case.
Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco
A North African market shaped by domestic banks, consumer demand, phosphates, and the European trade cycle.
Africa
🇳🇬 Nigeria
A frontier market where oil, banking liquidity, inflation, and FX reform dominate the macro read.
Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania
An East African market where infrastructure, mining, telecoms, and domestic demand shape the growth story.
Real GDP growth
O que isto sinaliza
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 2.4%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.