The World Bank is projecting a 3.9% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for Ghana in 2025.
This is against 4.4% growth rate forecast by the government.
The Bretton Woods institution earlier projected a 4.3% GDP for Ghana, reflecting a moderate outlook and persistent inflation.
In its April 2025 Africa Pulse Report, the World Bank expects Ghana’s economy to expand slightly to 4.6% in 2026 and further to 4.8% in 2027.
The report expressed concern about the unpredictable growing weather conditions adversely affecting not only the cocoa harvest and prices in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, but also stockpiles in the world marketplace. On average, the response to extreme weather events such as droughts and floods has diverted up to 9.0% of African governments’ budgets and rendered losses of 2.0% to 5.0% of economic activity.
The report added that African economies such as Ghana registered signals of improved business sentiment at the start of 2025.
“High-frequency indicators point to activity in manufacturing and services improving across countries in the region at the start of 2025. Business sentiment continues to expand in some countries (Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia), while in others it has bounced back from contraction (Ghana and Mozambique) or remains subdued (South Africa and Uganda)”, the report emphasised.
It continued that business activity in Mozambique and Ghana bounced back in February 2025.
In Ghana, the Purchasing Managers Index increased from 47.9 in January to 50.6 in March, as the subdued expansion responded to greater demand, easing of supply chain problems, and new business catch-up following the presidential elections in December 2025.
Meanwhile, economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to edge up from 3.3% in 2024 to 3.5% in 2025 and further accelerate to 4.3% in 2026–27.
However, the region’s economic performance is still dragged down by some of its largest countries—namely, Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Excluding these countries, the rest of the subcontinent is expected to grow at 4.6 percent in 2025 and speed up to 5.7% in 2026–27. This outlook is subject to heightened risks arising from global policy uncertainty.
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