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
25.7%
+8.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.48%
+0.7 pts since 2000
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
40.3%
of GDP · -25 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
11.0m
91.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Honduras 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 3.0% to 4.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then fell to 2.5% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.7% to 1.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2025.
Education rose from 2.6% to 7.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 4.5% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 17.4% to 28.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then fell to 25.7% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 65.4% to 22.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 40.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 5.7 million in 1995 to 11.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 14.8 million by 2050.