Ghana is scaling digital governance with 16,000 e-services, biometric IDs for 18.7M citizens, and rising global e-government rankings, leading West Africa’s digital public sector.
- Ghana plans to digitize 16,000 public services via Ghana.gov by 2025, up from 1,500–2,000 currently, integrating the portal with the national biometric Ghana Card. || Source: Ecofin
+ Furthermore, the country ranked 108th in 2024 on the UN e-Government Index with a score of 0.63, up from 0.56 in 2022, the highest in West Africa. - In 2008, Ghana introduced a biometric national ID system, with rollout beginning in 2018, providing citizens with a personal identification number (PIN). || Source: ISS Africa
+ And by May 2025, the National Identification Authority enrolled 18.7M citizens and issued 17.6M biometric ID cards, enabling access to banking, passports, SIM registration, property, business, and education services. - Moreover, in 2023, the country ranked 99th globally in the Global Innovation Index, 7th in Sub-Saharan Africa, supported by political stability, innovation policy, entrepreneurship, and ICT access. || Source: ITA
+ In 2022, Ghana launched two $20M funds—the Startup Catalyst Fund and Strategic Industries Fund—while most MSMEs relied on grants, dominated by development agencies (56%) and accelerators (28%). || Source: WBG
