TARIN
Ghana · consumer prices · 1998 to August 2026

The checked record of Ghana's prices.

TARIN takes the Ghana Statistical Service's price data from the source, keeps every file it came from, and runs fourteen checks before anything is published. Values that fail stay off the charts, with the reason shown.

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Year-on-year inflation –
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–month-on-month
–food
–non-food
–local goods
–imported goods
–index, 2021 = 100

Source: GSS CPI annex.

In the store

Everything on this site comes from one checked store

The CPI, 19 more tables from GSS's StatsBank (GDP, trade, money and interest rates, government finance and debt), the Bank of Ghana's exchange rate for every trading day since 1996, the World Bank's monthly world commodity prices since 1960, and world diesel prices from the US Energy Information Administration. Browse them in the catalogue.

–values stored
–cleared to publish
–held back by a check
–series
–tables, from GSS, the Bank of Ghana, the World Bank and the US EIA
–source files, fingerprinted
Data story

Ghana's Price Record

Twenty-seven years of inflation, the 2026 rebound, sixteen regions and imported goods, each chart with its sources.

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The cedi and prices

How much of a fall in the cedi reaches the prices of imported and local goods, and how many months it takes. Recomputed with each release.

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Trade and industry

What Ghana sells and buys, gold's rise to most of its exports, the terms of trade, and growth month by month. Recomputed with each release.

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Data explorer

Any series by region, product group or origin. Compare two sources, see what's held and why, download CSV.

Explore → Tables

Catalogue

GDP, trade, money, rates, government finance: every other table, how fresh it is, and any series charted against any other.

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Inflation forecast

Headline inflation four months ahead, with honest ranges, and a second forecast that adds the cedi. Frozen before GSS publishes, then scored against what it publishes.

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How it's checked

The fourteen rules, what they're holding right now, the problems they found in GSS's data, and every source file.

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Sources

Where the numbers come from, and how fresh they are

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The two CPI sources overlap from 2021 and are compared month by month. Where they agree, figures come from StatsBank up to January 2026 and from the annex after it. The other StatsBank tables are listed, with their dates, in the catalogue. The Bank of Ghana's rates are read twice a day; their monthly averages are compared with StatsBank's exchange-rate table. The World Bank's workbook is read at the start of each month; its Brent price is compared with the IMF's. World diesel prices come from the US Energy Information Administration through FRED and are read once a day.