Ghana: Ghana’s forestry sector contributes averagely 1.5% to GDP from 2014-2023 – Report

The country’s forestry sec­tor, particularly forest and logging in 2014 contributed GH¢10.83 billion to Gross Do­mestic Product (GDP), a study to assess the contribution of forestry to Ghana’s economic development has revealed.

This represented 2.0 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2014.

The study was conducted by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with the Forestry Commission (FC), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and Warnel School of…