Benin vs Ghana: Services, value added

Benin
8.5%
in 2025
Ghana
8.1%
in 2025
Benin rank
14th
Ghana rank
16th

Services, value added over time

  • Benin
  • Ghana
-1001020197119982025

How they compare

Benin currently reports 8.5% against 8.1% in Ghana, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2007 it was Benin ahead.

Globally, Benin ranks 14th and Ghana ranks 16th of 197 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Services, value added (annual % growth)
Unit
annual % growth
Source
Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
240 places, 9,625 data points, 1961–2025
Last refreshed

Services industries correspond to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 45-99 and includes wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, real estate, renting and business activities, public administration and defence, compulsory social security, education, health and social work, other community, social and personal service activities, private households with employed persons, and extra-territorial organizations and bodies. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.