{"id":33845,"date":"2025-07-30T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33845\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:37:22","slug":"ghanas-trade-surplus-hits-307-to-5-57-billion-in-first-half-of-2025-bog-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33845\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s trade surplus hits 307% to $5.57 billion in first half of 2025 \u2013 BoG report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-s-trade-surplus-hits-307-to-5-57-billion-in-first-half-of-2025-BoG-report-1993928?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/88003333.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cocoa and gold are key export commodities for Ghana\" title=\"Cocoa and gold are key export commodities for Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"174\" \/> <\/a>Cocoa and gold are key export commodities for Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana posted a significant trade surplus of US$5.57 billion in the first six months of 2025, which represents a 307.4% increase compared to the US$1.367 billion recorded during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The trade surplus is the amount by which the value of a country&#8217;s exports exceeds the value of its imports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bank of Ghana<\/a>\u2019s latest data, total exports for the first half of the year reached US$13.79 billion, while imports stood at US$8.225 billion as of June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The strong surplus was largely driven by booming gold exports, which brought in US$8.38 billion, supported by high global gold prices. Cocoa exports followed, generating US$2.167 billion during the period.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, crude oil exports were also notable, bringing in US$1.364 billion, while non-traditional exports, including processed foods, horticultural products, and crafts accounted for US$1.87 billion. <\/p>\n<p>According to the BoG data, the country&#8217;s gross international reserves stood at US$11.12 billion as of June 2025, providing about 4.8 months of import cover, while net international reserves stood at US$8.88 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On the external accounts front, Ghana recorded a current account surplus of US$3.34 billion. The financial account was however estimated at US$1.596 billion, reflecting improved capital flows and external financing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cocoa and gold are key export commodities for Ghana Ghana posted a significant trade surplus of US$5.57 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-33845","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\/33845","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=33845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}