Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, rev
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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
0.85%
-1.2 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2019
260.4%
of GDP · +41 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
3.6m
78.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Eritrea 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 fell from 2.1% to 0.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2014, then rose to 0.8% by 2023.
Defence rose from 19.5% to 34.4% of GDP between 1995 and 1999, then fell to 20.9% by 2003.
Education rose from 1.6% to 5.3% of GDP between 1996 and 1999, then fell to 2.1% by 2006.
Gross debt fell from 219.1% to 171.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2011, then rose to 260.4% by 2019.
Population grew from 2.0 million in 1995 to 3.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 5.7 million by 2050.