Latin America & Caribbean · 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
13.4%
+3.6 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.40%
-0.7 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
3.08%
+1.5 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
26.7%
of GDP · +9 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
18.7m
81.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Guatemala 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 1.9% to 2.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.1% to 0.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2018, then rose to 0.5% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.6% to 3.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 3.1% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 9.8% to 15.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 13.4% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 18.0% to 31.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 26.7% by 2025.
Population grew from 10.3 million in 1995 to 18.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 24.7 million by 2050.