The Government Statistician, Dr Alhassan Iddrisu, has urged households in Ghana to strengthen financial resilience by managing spending carefully, rebuilding savings, and investing in skills and income opportunities linked to fast-growing sectors such as information and communication, transport and logistics, agriculture value chains, and digital services.
He said that positioning household economic activities around these expanding sectors will help capture opportunities created by the improving economy.
His comments come on the back of Ghana’s economy, which grew by 5.8% in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2025, up from 4% in Q4 2024.
Dr Iddrisu said that this indicates stronger year-on-year economic momentum toward the end of the year
He further announced on Tuesday, March 17, that non-oil activities drove most of the expansion: Non-oil GDP grew by 7.1% in Q4 2025, compared with 4.8% in Q4 2024, showing that growth was largely supported by sectors outside oil and gas.
Industry improved but remained constrained. Industry grew by 1.9%, compared with 0.3% in Q4 2024, but performance was significantly affected by a contraction in Oil and Gas production of
16.8%, despite positive growth in Manufacturing (6.1%) and Electricity (7.2%).
Services remained the main engine of growth. The services sector expanded by 8.6%, accounting for 50.6% of GDP and contributing 63.4% of overall economic growth.
In its recommendations, the GSS urged households to strengthen financial resilience by managing spending carefully, rebuilding savings, and investing in skills and income opportunities linked to fast-growing sectors such as information and communication, transport and logistics, agriculture value chains, and digital services.
Positioning household economic activities around these expanding sectors will help capture opportunities created by the improving economy, the GSS said.
To businesses, it asked them to direct investment and expansion toward the fastest-growing parts of the economy, particularly information and communication, transport and storage, manufacturing, agriculture value chains, education services, and financial services, which are among the key drivers of GDP growth. At the same time, firms should strengthen productivity, adopt technology, manage costs, and diversify supply chains to remain competitive in an environment where growth across sectors remains uneven.
The GSS also asked the government to sustain growth momentum by scaling support for high-performing sectors/sub-sectors, especially ICT, crops, manufacturing, transport and logistics, education, and financial services, while addressing persistent weaknesses in oil and gas, mining, forestry, and other contracting activities.
Continued investment in agricultural productivity, agroprocessing, logistics infrastructure, digital infrastructure, and industrial value chains will help sustain non-oil growth and broaden the sources of Ghana’s economic expansion.
