Ghana - Services, value added (% of GDP)

Services, value added (% of GDP) in Ghana was 45.01 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 36 years was 48.18 in 2010, while its lowest value was 26.25 in 1996.

Definition: Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99 and they include value added in wholesale and retail trade (including hotels and restaurants), transport, and government, financial, professional, and personal services such as education, health care, and real estate services. Also included are imputed bank service charges, import duties, and any statistical discrepancies noted by national compilers as well as discrepancies arising from rescaling. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The industrial origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3 or 4.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Year Value
1984 35.05
1985 31.12
1986 34.55
1987 32.88
1988 33.61
1989 33.39
1990 37.89
1991 37.42
1992 37.44
1993 27.53
1994 27.34
1995 27.75
1996 26.25
1997 27.89
1998 28.23
1999 28.41
2000 28.82
2001 29.16
2002 29.21
2003 29.07
2004 28.68
2005 28.91
2006 46.46
2007 47.17
2008 46.17
2009 47.94
2010 48.18
2011 45.84
2012 47.58
2013 40.59
2014 37.41
2015 40.52
2016 43.92
2017 43.48
2018 43.68
2019 45.14
2020 45.01

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industry the many self-employed workers and one-person businesses are sometimes difficult to locate, and they have little incentive to respond to surveys, let alone to report their full earnings. Compounding these problems are the many forms of economic activity that go unrecorded, including the work that women and children do for little or no pay.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers. Value added is the value of the gross output of producers less the value of intermediate goods and services consumed in production, before accounting for consumption of fixed capital in production. The United Nations System of National Accounts calls for value added to be valued at either basic prices (excluding net taxes on products) or producer prices (including net taxes on products paid by producers but excluding sales or value added taxes). Both valuations exclude transport charges that are invoiced separately by producers. Total GDP is measured at purchaser prices. Value added by industry is normally measured at basic prices. Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) is an indirect measure of the value of financial intermediation services (i.e. output) provided but for which financial institutions do not charge explicitly as compared to explicit bank charges. Although the 1993 SNA recommends that the FISIM are allocated as intermediate and final consumption to the users, many countries still make a global (negative) adjustment to the sum of gross value added.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts