{"id":34532,"date":"2025-07-30T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34532\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:22:11","slug":"ghanas-public-debt-drops-by-gh%c2%a2139-billion-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34532\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s public debt drops by GH\u00a2139 billion in first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-s-public-debt-drops-by-GH-139-billion-in-first-half-of-2025-BoG-report-1993893?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/37841429.295.jpg\" alt=\"Data from the Bank of Ghana indicates that the country's total debt has declined\" title=\"Data from the Bank of Ghana indicates that the country's total debt has declined\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/> <\/a>Data from the Bank of Ghana indicates that the country&#8217;s total debt has declined<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The country&#8217;s public debt has seen a substantial reduction in the first half of 2025, falling by GH\u00a2139 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bank of Ghana<\/a> indicates that the country&#8217;s total debt declined from GH\u00a2752.1 billion in January to GH\u00a2613.0 billion by the end of June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This trend highlights an improvement in fiscal management, buoyed by currency stability, nominal GDP growth, and more restrained domestic borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this overall decline, external debt continues to dominate Ghana\u2019s debt profile, placing pressure on foreign reserves and heightening exposure to exchange rate volatility and global interest rate risks.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 2025, Ghana&#8217;s external debt edged up to GH\u00a2300.3 billion, representing 21.4% of GDP compared to GH\u00a2296.2 billion in May. <\/p>\n<p>Domestically, debt levels dropped slightly to GH\u00a2312.7 billion in June from GH\u00a2315.6 billion the previous month. This now accounts for 22.3% of GDP. <\/p>\n<p>On the country\u2019s debt-to-GDP ratio, it held steady at 43.8% in June, down significantly from 66.8% recorded a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>This sharp drop is largely attributed to GDP rebasing and broader macroeconomic stabilisation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Although the downward debt trajectory has been met with optimism, investors and economists remain cautious.<\/p>\n<p>SA\/MA<\/p>\n<p>How Virtual Reality is enhancing business and customer experience<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data from the Bank of Ghana indicates that the country&#8217;s total debt has declined The country&#8217;s public debt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-34532","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\/34532","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=34532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}