{"id":434982,"date":"2026-02-19T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:38:08","slug":"imf-lists-ghana-as-4th-highest-debtor-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434982\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF lists Ghana as 4th highest debtor in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3679\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Monetary Fund<\/a> (IMF) has ranked Ghana as the fourth African country with the highest debt owed to the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IMF, Ghana\u2019s debt stood at Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 1.96 billion in February 2026, compared to SDR 2.85 billion as of December 22, 2025. This was equivalent to US$2.84 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt remains Africa\u2019s largest debtor to the IMF, with outstanding obligations of US$5.88 billion. <\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire follows in second place with US$3.62 billion, while Kenya ranks third at US$2.93 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Angola is fifth, owing US$2.49 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Here-s-Ghana-s-current-debt-stock-as-of-November-2025-2019172\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s Ghana&#8217;s current debt stock as of November 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s overall public debt position recorded mixed movements during the period under review.<\/p>\n<p>Data indicates that total public debt declined by about GH\u00a240 billion between September and November 2025, settling at GH\u00a2644.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In dollar terms, Ghana\u2019s public debt stood at US$57.2 billion in November 2025. This was lower than the US$57.8 billion recorded in October 2025 but higher than the US$55.1 billion reported in September 2025, largely due to exchange rate fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p>Current data from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bank of Ghana<\/a> shows that Ghana\u2019s public debt now stands at GH\u00a2630.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>SP\/SA<\/p>\n<p>Auto dealers respond to 15% price cut announcement<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ranked Ghana as the fourth African country with the highest debt owed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434982","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\/434982","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=434982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}