East Asia & Pacific · 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
30.8%
+7.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.31%
-0.3 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
77.1%
of GDP · +28 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.9m
16.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Fiji 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 2.6% to 1.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2013, then rose to 2.7% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.6% to 2.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then fell to 1.3% by 2025.
Education rose from 5.5% to 6.3% of GDP between 1998 and 2002, then fell to 4.2% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 23.5% to 35.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then fell to 30.8% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 49.1% to 91.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2022, then fell to 77.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.8 million in 1995 to 0.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.0 million by 2050.