East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
98.1%
+28.5 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
8.0%
of GDP · -4 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.1m
68.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Kiribati 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 7.5% to 11.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then fell to 8.6% by 2023.
Education rose from 9.7% to 16.4% of GDP between 1999 and 2023.
Total spending rose from 69.6% to 108.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2018, then fell to 98.1% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 12.3% to 21.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2016, then fell to 8.0% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.2 million by 2050.