Rankings · Ghana

Presidents

• Real GDP during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service quarterly GDP (StatsBank, constant 2013 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 2006; the World Bank's yearly GDP at the same prices before
• Real GDP per person during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service quarterly GDP (constant 2013 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 2006), over the population (World Bank, UN estimates) interpolated to the quarter
• Unemployment rate during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service's surveys as ILOSTAT processes their microdata on the ILO's definitions, persons aged 15 and over: the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey's quarters 2022 to 2024, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey's from Q2 2025. GSS's own headline unemployment rate, on its national definition, reads about four times higher (13.0 % in Q3 2025)
• Employment rate, 15 and over during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service's surveys as ILOSTAT processes their microdata on the ILO's definitions, persons aged 15 and over: the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey's quarters 2022 to 2024, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey's from Q2 2025
• People employed during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service's surveys as ILOSTAT processes their microdata on the ILO's definitions, persons aged 15 and over: the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey's quarters 2022 to 2024, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey's from Q2 2025
• Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, spliced across GSS's base years by the IMF), national, change on the same month a year earlier
• Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenureGhana Statistical Service consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, GSS's base years spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100), national
• Population during each president's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year
• Exchange rate during each president's tenureBank of Ghana exchange rate via the IMF (ER, cedis per US dollar, period average, in new cedis throughout: 10,000 old cedis became one in July 2007), monthly
• Access to electricity during each president's tenureWorld Bank (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS), share of the population with an electricity connection, from household surveys and censuses with the World Bank's estimates between them, yearly
• Crude oil output during each president's tenureUS Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: crude oil including lease condensate, thousand barrels a day, monthly, the EIA's estimates from national, OPEC and industry sources
• Happiness during each president's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
• Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
• Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval