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
20.4%
+5.2 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.76%
+0.2 pts since 1996
Education · 2024
3.61%
-0.7 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
57.1%
of GDP · -27 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
32.7m
120.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Cote d'Ivoire 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 0.6% to 1.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 0.6% to 1.3% of GDP between 1996 and 2009, then fell to 0.8% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.3% to 2.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then rose to 3.6% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 15.2% to 11.4% of GDP between 1997 and 2001, then rose to 20.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 84.2% to 24.6% of GDP between 1997 and 2013, then rose to 57.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 14.9 million in 1995 to 32.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 55.7 million by 2050.