The rate of increase in construction costs in Ghana, measured by the Prime Building Cost Index (PBCI), declined to 4.4 per cent in December 2025, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced. “The prime building cost index for December 2025 was 131.0, up from 125.5 in December 2024, and translates into a year‑on‑year inflation rate of 4.4 per cent for December 2025 for the building industry,” Dr Alhassan Iddrisu, Government Statistician, said in Accra on Tuesday. Releasing the PBCI, he noted that in the short term, construction costs reduced between November and December 2025, with a month‑on‑month deflation of 2.2 per cent. The GSS data showed that building materials inflation reduced to 2.7 per cent in December 2025 compared to 23.5 per cent in December 2024, labour inflation slowed to 10.7 per cent from 21.3 per cent, while plant inflation slowed to 5.6 per cent from 11 per cent year‑on‑year. “While overall inflation declined and materials eased, plant costs moved upwards.