GHANA DIGITAL ECONOMY DIAGNOSTIC

Ghana’s economy is led by the services sector, with information and communications technology (ICT) contributing about 3.6 percent of the country’s GDP, telecommunication services being the main one. The contribution of Ghana’s ICT sector to the overall GDP of the country has grown steadily over the years, becoming one of the best performing sectors in the country’s economy.

Yet, in many African countries, access to DTs has been historically low and there remains a huge gap between availability and use as examined extensively in a recent World Bank report, Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs.

In this blog post, we use newly available census data from Ghana and offer 10 facts on the uptake of internet and fintech between 2010 and 2021, and evidence on factors that drive adoption in the country… source (https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/ten-facts-about-digital-technology-adoption-ghana)