Provisional estimates from the Ghana Statistical Service show that the economy expanded by 2.0% in the third quarter of 2023.

This is lower than the pre-pandemic average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 5%.

For non-oil GDP, the economy grew at a rate of 2.1%.

According to the figures from the GSS, the Agriculture and Services sectors expanded by 5.9% and 2.0% respectively. However, Industry contracted by 4.3%.

For the Agric sector, all the sub-sectors expanded except Forestry and Logging which contracted by 6.9%. The Crops sub-sector registered the highest growth rate of 7.0%.

All the the Services sector recorded GDP growth rate in nine out of the 10 sub-sectors.

Information and Communication sub-sector registered the highest GDP growth rate of 17.3%.

With regard to Industry, the Construction (-8.3%), Mining and Quarrying (-8.1%) and Electricity (-1.8%) sub-sectors contracted.

Source: myjoyonline.com