Foreign direct investment inflows in Ghana

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Ghana were 1.7% of GDP in 2025.

Ghana, 2025 1.7% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −0.4percentage points 2024: 2.1%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 110th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Ghana over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Foreign direct investment, net inflows, as a share of GDP (% of GDP), 2001 to 2025
Period GhanaWorld
2025 1.7% 1.4%
2024 2.1% 1.2%
2023 1.6% 0.9%
2022 1.9% 1.9%
2021 3.2% 2.5%
2020 2.7% 1.3%
2019 5.7% 2.2%
2018 4.4% 1.2%
2017 5.4% 2.7%
2016 6.2% 3.5%
2015 6.5% 3.6%
2014 6.2% 2.4%
2013 5.1% 2.6%
2012 8.0% 2.7%
2011 8.3% 3.2%
2010 7.8% 2.7%
2009 9.1% 2.4%
2008 9.5% 3.7%
2007 5.6% 5.3%
2006 3.0% 4.2%
2005 1.3% 3.3%
2004 1.6% 2.2%
2003 1.8% 1.9%
2002 1.0% 2.1%
2001 1.7% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.4 percentage points from 2.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 6.5%, the figure has changed by −4.8 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Ghana has the 110th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 1.4%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1970 to 2025 for Ghana
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics