{"id":205355,"date":"2025-10-17T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205355\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:33:13","slug":"ghanas-economic-growth-slows-to-4-5-in-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205355\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s economic growth slows to 4.5% in July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-s-economic-growth-slows-to-4-5-in-July-2025-GSS-2005432?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45809683.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Alhassan Iddrisu is the Government Statistician\" title=\"Dr Alhassan Iddrisu is the Government Statistician\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <\/a>Dr Alhassan Iddrisu is the Government Statistician<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana\u2019s economy expanded by 4.5 percent year-on-year in July 2025, according to the latest Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth (MIEG) released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).<\/p>\n<p>This represents a slowdown from the 8.3 percent growth recorded in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on October 16, 2025, Government Statistician Dr Alhassan Iddrisu highlighted the key drivers of growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/How-Ghana-s-economy-performed-in-Q2-2025-GSS-report-2000096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Ghana&#8217;s economy performed in Q2 2025 \u2013 GSS report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He noted that the agriculture sector, the main driver, grew by 8.0 percent, supported by higher crop yields and improved productivity in food staples. <\/p>\n<p>The industrial sector aslo recorded marginal growth of 0.1 percent, while the services sector maintained moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy continued to expand in July 2025, though at a slower rate compared to the same period last year,\u201d Dr Iddrisu said.<\/p>\n<p>SP\/MA<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest edition of BizTech below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Alhassan Iddrisu is the Government Statistician Ghana\u2019s economy expanded by 4.5 percent year-on-year in July 2025, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205355","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=205355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}