Europe & Central Asia · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, 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
0.43%
-0.6 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
24.3%
of GDP · +7 pts since 2002
Population · 2025
20.8m
24.6% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Kazakhstan 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 2.1% to 1.7% of GDP between 2000 and 2019, then rose to 2.5% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.0% to 1.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then fell to 0.4% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.0% to 2.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then rose to 4.9% by 2023.
Gross debt fell from 17.6% to 4.1% of GDP between 2002 and 2007, then rose to 24.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 16.7 million in 1995 to 20.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 26.5 million by 2050.