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
9.54%
-7.9 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.49%
-1.7 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
2.30%
-0.4 pts since 1996
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
43.3%
of GDP · -103 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
135.5m
135.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Ethiopia 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 1.8% to 2.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then fell to 0.6% by 2023.
Defence rose from 2.2% to 9.5% of GDP between 1995 and 1999, then fell to 0.5% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.7% to 5.6% of GDP between 1996 and 2012, then fell to 2.3% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 17.4% to 27.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2003, then fell to 9.5% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 146.6% to 30.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then rose to 43.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 57.5 million in 1995 to 135.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 225.0 million by 2050.