Ghana
Overall Score, 2024
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Country-specific presentation slides display the findings from the Cigarette Tax Scorecard.
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2024
Ghana scores better than the average score of countries in its region and income group, but below the global average and top performing countries. This suggests significant room for improvement in their cigarette tax system.
Component Score
2024
Ghana scores well in tax structure, but poorly in price, affordability change, and tax share components. Ghana would greatly benefit from increasing cigarette prices, reducing cigarette affordability, and increasing the tax share of price.
Scores Over Time
Ghana's overall score and component scores remained constant from 2014 to 2022, then rose in 2024 due to an increase in price and the tax share of cigarette price, and improvement in tax structure. The country has not been able to reduce the cigarette affordability over time.
