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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
0.57%
+0.3 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
73.7%
of GDP · +0 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
2.8m
123.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Gambia, The 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 0.6% to 2.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 1.3% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.3% to 1.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 0.6% by 2025.
Education fell from 2.6% to 0.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then rose to 2.8% by 2023.
Gross debt fell from 73.3% to 38.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2007, then rose to 73.7% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.3 million in 1995 to 2.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 4.3 million by 2050.