{"id":247600,"date":"2026-10-20T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/east-africa-ghana-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-africas-eighth-largest-economy-after-kenya-takes-east-africa-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:00:05","slug":"east-africa-ghana-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-africas-eighth-largest-economy-after-kenya-takes-east-africa-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/east-africa-ghana-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-africas-eighth-largest-economy-after-kenya-takes-east-africa-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Ghana Set to Overtake Ethiopia As Africa&#8217;s Eighth-Largest Economy After Kenya Takes East Africa Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ghana is projected to overtake Ethiopia as Africa&#8217;s eighth-largest economy in 2026, with its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to reach US$128.64 billion, exceeding Ethiopia&#8217;s projected US$127.15 billion by US$1.49 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s (IMF) October 2026 World Economic Outlook (WEO), as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/markets\/ghana-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-africas-eighth-largest-economy-leading-by-dollar149\/rkm2gtw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">African Business Insider<\/a> on 17 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The projected shift comes after Kenya overtook Ethiopia as East Africa&#8217;s largest economy in nominal US&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610190344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Ghana is projected to overtake Ethiopia as Africa&#8217;s eighth-largest economy in 2026, with its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to reach US$128.64 billion, exceeding Ethiopia&#8217;s projected US$127.15 billion by US$1.49 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s (IMF) October 2026 World Economic Outlook (WEO), as reported by African Business Insider on 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601844:3d05f3c2c4e1fdbd2210629f644501df:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6287,6719,5762,55675,4716,4508,4509,4688,7358,257,23436,7106,254,5056],"class_list":["post-247600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-eighthlargest","tag-ethiopia","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kenya","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-overtake","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601844:3d05f3c2c4e1fdbd2210629f644501df:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}