Finance Minister urges GDP, inflation rebase - Hands over MoF offices to GSS

“When I became a Minister of Finance for the first time, on the second day in office, I walked straight to the Government Statistician’s office.

Funding for rebasing, operations The Government Statistician, Dr Alhassan Iddrisu, thanked the minister for securing GH¢207 million in the 2026 budget for the rebasing of the Consumer Price Index and GDP, with GH¢140 million already released.

The Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, has called on the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) to prioritise the rebasing of the country’s Gross Domestic Product and Consumer Price Index data as the basis for sound economic decision-making.