Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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
20.6%
-6.4 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
31.3%
of GDP · +2 pts since 2009
Population · 2025
1.2m
87.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Djibouti 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 1.4% to 2.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2011, then fell to 1.1% by 2023.
Defence fell from 5.8% to 2.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2008.
Education fell from 7.6% to 3.6% of GDP between 1999 and 2015, then rose to 3.8% by 2018.
Total spending rose from 27.0% to 42.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 20.6% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 29.5% to 48.0% of GDP between 2009 and 2017, then fell to 31.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.6 million in 1995 to 1.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.5 million by 2050.