East Asia & Pacific · 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
57.0%
-20.3 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
8.8%
of GDP · -45 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.1m
3.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 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 1.7% to 1.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then rose to 1.8% by 2023.
Education rose from 6.4% to 13.8% of GDP between 1999 and 2016, then fell to 11.6% by 2020.
Total spending fell from 77.2% to 57.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2024.
Gross debt fell from 53.9% to 8.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Population grew from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.1 million by 2050.