Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
16.7%
+14.6 pts since 1996
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.22%
-0.3 pts since 1996
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
20.4%
of GDP · -115 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
112.8m
153.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Congo, Dem. Rep. yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 0.1% to 0.7% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.5% to 0.2% of GDP between 1996 and 2000, then rose to 1.4% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.5% to 2.8% of GDP between 2010 and 2022.
Total spending rose from 2.2% to 16.7% of GDP between 1996 and 2024.
Gross debt fell from 135.0% to 7.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2012, then rose to 20.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 44.4 million in 1995 to 112.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 218.2 million by 2050.