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
20.4%
+12.2 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.04%
+0.5 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
75.1%
of GDP · -19 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
2.2m
100.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Guinea-Bissau 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 1.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 0.9% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.5% to 2.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then fell to 0.9% by 2025.
Total spending rose from 8.1% to 25.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 20.4% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 94.3% to 217.1% of GDP between 1997 and 2000, then fell to 75.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.1 million in 1995 to 2.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 3.4 million by 2050.