Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
58.8%
+30.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
5.39%
-0.4 pts since 1998
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
99.9%
of GDP · +43 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.1m
-5.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Dominica 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 3.4% to 3.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Education fell from 5.7% to 3.1% of GDP between 1998 and 2015, then rose to 5.4% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 28.8% to 58.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2024.
Gross debt rose from 57.4% to 118.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 99.9% by 2025.
Population fell from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.1 million by 2050.