Prices in Ghana 🇬🇭

In Ghana, mobile data costs $0.40, beer costs $0.67 and diesel costs $1.55. That is 7 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in GHS, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

The cedi has repeatedly lost a large share of its dollar value, so a Ghanaian figure converted today and the same figure converted a year ago are not really comparable, and the dollar column here should be read with that in mind. The headline VAT rate of 15% also understates the wedge: two earmarked levies of 2.5% each, for health insurance and education, sit on top and are not recoverable the way VAT is. Fuel has been fully deregulated since 2015, so pump prices track the exchange rate almost immediately, which is unusual in the region.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	no data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	no data
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.55	17.12 GHS	76 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$19.30	212.8 GHS	15.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$1.74	26 GHS	86 min
Beer (330ml)	$0.67	10 GHS	33 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$30.85	459.75 GHS	25.3 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.40	—	20 min
A day's healthy diet	$1.98	24.81 GHS	1.6 h

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Ghana compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Ghana is most expensive for spirits, where it ranks 5th out of 42 countries at $30.85, against a global median of $12.48.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $1.74, which is 41st of 49, only 8 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 25.3 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Ghana: 15% VAT, plus NHIL and GETFL levies of 2.5% each. Where these come from.

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Ghana prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Ghana?

Pricele publishes 7 everyday prices for Ghana, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.40, Beer $0.67, Diesel $1.55. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Ghana?

Ghana uses the GHS. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Ghana list?

Of the 7 items priced for Ghana, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.40 and the most expensive is Spirits at $30.85. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Ghana prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Ghana.