Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF09, GF0107, rev
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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
2.45%
+0.8 pts since 2004
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
52.8%
of GDP · -292 pts since 2004
Population · 2025
47.0m
125.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Iraq 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 1.4% to 0.7% of GDP between 2003 and 2015, then rose to 2.5% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.7% to 5.4% of GDP between 2004 and 2015, then fell to 2.4% by 2025.
Gross debt fell from 344.3% to 27.6% of GDP between 2004 and 2014, then rose to 52.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 20.8 million in 1995 to 47.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 71.9 million by 2050.