What changed
Official quarterly totals, newest first · Ministry of Finance of Ghana · published once a quarter, about two to three months after each quarter-endGhana government debt
Ministry of Finance of Ghana · official as of Jun 30, 2026 · projected at the past 12 months' pace between quarterly figuresGhana central government public debt
Ministry of Finance of Ghana, Public Debt Statistical Bulletin, Table 1 Public Debt Dynamics, GH₵ billion · official, Jun 30, 2026 · fixedPer person
Ghana Statistical Service, 2021 Population and Housing Census, total population · Jun 27, 2021History
Fixed official figures · Ministry of Finance of Ghana · these do not tickDetails
Full official tablesGhana central government public debt: GH₵719,520,000,000
Official, quarter-end Jun 30, 2026 · Ministry of Finance of Ghana, Public Debt Statistical Bulletin, Table 1 Public Debt Dynamics, GH₵ billion (Quarterly PDF Public Debt Statistical Bulletin, Table 1, total public debt (external + domestic))
| Part | Amount |
|---|---|
| Domestic | |
| Domestic debt | GH₵391,120,000,000 |
| External | |
| External debt | GH₵328,400,000,000 |
| Total | GH₵719,520,000,000 |
Central government debt in cedis, domestic and external, including government-guaranteed debt. Excludes local governments and the borrowing of state-owned enterprises that the government has not guaranteed.
By quarter (official)
| Quarter-end | Public debt | Combined | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | GH₵719,520,000,000 | GH₵719,520,000,000 | +GH₵33.42B |
| Mar 31, 2026 | GH₵686,100,000,000 | GH₵686,100,000,000 | +GH₵44.99B |
| Dec 31, 2025 | GH₵641,110,000,000 | GH₵641,110,000,000 | +GH₵27.01B |
| Jun 30, 2025 | GH₵614,100,000,000 | GH₵614,100,000,000 | — |
How it works
Official quarterly figures · projection labelled · sources linkedThe live number = latest official total + (the official change per second over the past 12 months × seconds since that total). Ghana publishes its debt once a quarter, not daily, so this is a projection between quarterly figures, not an official figure.
projected = 719,520,000,000 + 3,342.8463 × (seconds since Jun 30, 2026 11:59:59 PM CT)
The rate is the official change from Jun 30, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026: GH₵719,520,000,000 − GH₵614,100,000,000 = GH₵105,420,000,000 over 365 days = GH₵3,342.85 per second. We use the change over the latest twelve months rather than the last quarter because quarterly changes swing with the exchange rate and with issuance. The actual path is lumpy (bonds are sold in batches and repaid on schedules), so the projection will drift; when new quarterly figures come out, the clock re-bases to the new official figures.
How often it's published. Quarterly. The Ministry of Finance publishes each quarter's bulletin about two to three months after the quarter ends. The Ministry of Finance publishes each quarter's Public Debt Statistical Bulletin about two to three months after the quarter ends; this page re-bases to it automatically on the next daily build after it appears.
Per person divides by the GSS's estimate of 30,832,019 people on Jun 27, 2021. It is not projected forward, so the live per-person figure rises only with the debt.
Note. Why the Ministry's bulletin: it is the Ministry of Finance's own quarterly statement of the debt, with domestic and external parts. The fetcher reads Table 1 and checks that external plus domestic equals the total.
Note. Includes guarantees: the Ministry's headline measure counts government-guaranteed debt, so the figure is not like-for-like with pages that count only direct borrowing.
Note. Provisional: the latest quarter is provisional and may be revised.
Note. Currency: Ghanaian cedis. The World Debt Clock converts them to US dollars at the US Treasury's Reporting Rates of Exchange (a quarterly official rate as of 30 September 2026; the page for the World Debt Clock shows the rate and its date).
Note. Figures from source tables may not add exactly because of rounding in the source.
Sources: Ministry of Finance of Ghana, Public Debt Statistical Bulletin, Table 1 Public Debt Dynamics, GH₵ billion · Ghana Statistical Service, 2021 Population and Housing Census, total population · Bank of Ghana, Statistics · Ghana Statistical Service
Page built Oct 30, 2026 5:02 PM CT from the official figures above.