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
18.5%
-123.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.90%
-1.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
35.4%
of GDP · -102 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
1.9m
239.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Equatorial 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 fell from 0.5% to 0.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then rose to 1.1% by 2023.
Defence rose from 2.0% to 2.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then fell to 0.9% by 2025.
Total spending fell from 141.5% to 11.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then rose to 18.5% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 136.9% to 0.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 35.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.6 million in 1995 to 1.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 3.1 million by 2050.