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
23.2%
+2.3 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.84%
-0.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
28.9%
of GDP · -72 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
0.8m
10.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Guyana 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 1.8% to 4.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 1.7% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.9% to 2.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then fell to 1.0% by 2025.
Education rose from 3.6% to 8.6% of GDP between 1995 and 1999, then fell to 4.5% by 2018.
Total spending rose from 20.9% to 30.5% of GDP between 1997 and 2020, then fell to 23.2% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 101.3% to 28.9% of GDP between 1997 and 2025.
Population grew from 0.8 million in 1995 to 0.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.9 million by 2050.