{"id":143683,"date":"2025-09-17T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143683\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:56:13","slug":"ghanas-public-debt-rises-by-gh%c2%a215-8bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143683\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s public debt rises by GH\u00a215.8bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"546\">Ghana\u2019s public debt stock rose by GH\u00a215.8 billion in July 2025, reaching GH\u00a2628.8 billion ($59.9 billion).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"546\">This is per the Bank of Ghana\u2019s latest summary of economic and financial data released for September 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"546\">The increase, equivalent to 44.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes after three consecutive months of declines driven by the strong appreciation of the cedi earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"900\">The July figure compares with GH\u00a2613 billion in June and GH\u00a2769.4 billion in March, highlighting the volatility of the debt trajectory amid exchange rate movements.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTAsMCw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vallexlease.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VL-970x250-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"900\">External debt was broadly flat at $29.0 billion in July, representing 21.8% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"900\">However, domestic debt rose to GH\u00a2323.7 billion or 23.1% of GDP, from GH\u00a2312.7 billion a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"1164\">On the fiscal side, Ghana posted a deficit-to-GDP ratio of 1.4% in July, while the primary balance showed a surplus of 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"1164\">The figures signal both the pressure from rising domestic borrowing and the temporary relief from currency-driven valuation effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s public debt stock rose by GH\u00a215.8 billion in July 2025, reaching GH\u00a2628.8 billion ($59.9 billion). This is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-143683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}