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
20.6%
+7.9 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.17%
+1.0 pts since 1997
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
36.3%
of GDP · -23 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
15.1m
99.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Guinea 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 0.3% to 0.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 1.2% to 3.3% of GDP between 1997 and 2002, then fell to 2.0% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.6% to 2.6% of GDP between 1999 and 2013, then fell to 1.7% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 12.7% to 8.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then rose to 20.6% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 59.4% to 16.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2012, then rose to 36.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 7.6 million in 1995 to 15.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 23.4 million by 2050.