Accountability & governance — Ghana
Public money, made legible
Every year the Auditor-General reports how public institutions handled money, and where it went wrong. These reports run to hundreds of pages. The Audit Ledger turns them into charts you can read in minutes.
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The headline numbers
2024 financial year
All Auditor-General reports, 2024
GH¢20.74bn
Up from GH¢11.33bn in 2023 (+83%), sum of the 7 annual reports
See the breakdown Largest single area: Ministry of Energy
GH¢15.83bn
76% of all 2024 irregularities, in the Public Boards & SOEs report
See the breakdown Debts and loans not collected
GH¢12.73bn
61% of the total. Money owed to public bodies, mostly between state agencies.
See the breakdown Where the irregularities were found
Total per report, 2024
Show data table
| Report | 2024 total |
|---|---|
| Public Boards, Corporations & SOEs | GH¢18,415,673,589 |
| Ministries, Departments & Agencies | GH¢2,055,094,878 |
| District Assemblies (MMDAs) — Common Fund | GH¢205,926,921.99 |
| Pre-University Educational Institutions | GH¢23,444,814.16 |
| District Assemblies — Own Revenue (IGF) | GH¢18,884,198.22 |
| Public Universities (incl. Technical) | GH¢17,512,667 |
| Colleges of Education | GH¢5,944,404 |
The bar lengths differ by more than 1,000×: public boards dominate because of large outstanding debts and loans.
Auditor-General — 2024
Public Boards, Corporations & SOEs
By sector ministry, by type and trend.
GH¢18.42bn
Auditor-General — 2024Ministries, Departments & Agencies
By ministry, by type and trend.
GH¢2.06bn
Auditor-General — 2024District Assemblies (MMDAs) — Common Fund
261 institutions audited. By region, by type and trend.
GH¢206m
Auditor-General — 2024Pre-University Educational Institutions
832 institutions audited. By region, by type and trend.
GH¢23.4m
Auditor-General — 2024District Assemblies — Own Revenue (IGF)
261 institutions audited. By region, by type and trend.
GH¢18.9m
Auditor-General — 2024Public Universities (incl. Technical)
20 institutions audited. By university, by type and trend.
GH¢17.5m
Auditor-General — 2024Colleges of Education
By region, by type and trend.
GH¢5.9m
Five-year trend
Total irregularities per report, 2015–2024. Some reports only give recent years.
Hover a bar for each report's figure. The universities report changed scope in 2024, so technical universities and colleges stop in 2023.
What kind of irregularities
All reports combined, 2024
Recoveries: of GH¢39.0bn flagged for recovery in 2020–2023 audits, GH¢12.7bn (32.6%) has been recovered. See what came back →