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
24.8%
-0.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.53%
-0.2 pts since 2000
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
84.2%
of GDP · +11 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
2.6m
130.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Gabon 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 1.1% to 2.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.7% to 1.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2014, then rose to 1.7% by 2025.
Education fell from 3.4% to 2.3% of GDP between 1998 and 2023.
Total spending rose from 25.1% to 45.5% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 24.8% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 73.4% to 20.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 84.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.1 million in 1995 to 2.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 4.1 million by 2050.