Ghana has recorded the most severe decline in environmental sustainability across Africa over the past decade, according to the 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) report.
The report, which assesses governance performance across African countries on a ten-year scale, ranks countries based on their scores out of 100, with a focus on both the direction and pace of governance changes.
The Sustainable Environment sub-category, which measures factors such as Environmental Policy Enforcement, Air Quality, Sustainable Use of Land & Forests, and Biodiversity Protection, revealed significant drops in Ghana's performance.
In 2014, Ghana scored 41.9 on sustainable land and forest use, a figure that has since dropped to 37.6-indicating a 4.3-point decline.
