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Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP) fell 10.1% to 23.4% in Ghana in 2015

Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP) (%), 2015
Agriculture | Ghana | July 15, 2018
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Value added of agriculture as a share of GDP fell 10.1% to 23.4% in Ghana in 2015, according to Faostat.

Historically, value added of agriculture as a share of GDP in Ghana reached an all time high of 65.0% in 1978 and an all time low of 21.9% in 2013. When compared to Ghana's main peers, value added of agriculture as a share of GDP in Benin amounted to 36.5%, 23.8% in Ivory Coast and 30.8% in Togo in 2015.

Ghana has been ranked 28th within the group of 153 countries we follow in terms of value added of agriculture as a share of GDP, 19 places below the position seen 10 years ago.

Agriculture, Value Added (As % of GDP) Unit 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Benin % 35.9% 36.1% 36.9% 36.0% 36.5%
Burkina Faso % 22.8% 23.2% 21.6% 22.6% 22.9%
Ghana % 31.8% 29.8% 25.3% 23.0% 21.9%
Guinea % 25.9% 22.0% 22.1% 20.5% 20.2%
Ivory Coast % 21.2% 24.5% 26.7% 22.5% 22.3%
Liberia % 58.0% 44.8% 44.5% 38.8% 41.7%
Mali % 38.9% 40.6% 39.3% 42.3% 40.8%
Niger % 39.2% 40.9% 38.3% 39.4% 37.2%
Nigeria % 37.1% 23.9% 22.3% 22.1% 21.0%
Togo % 32.9% 31.0% 30.8% 30.9% 30.8%