East Asia & Pacific · 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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
0.53%
-0.7 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
1.23%
-1.2 pts since 1996
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
88.8%
of GDP · -6 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
7.9m
59.7% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Lao PDR 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 1.2% to 0.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2011, then rose to 0.5% by 2023.
Defence fell from 5.8% to 0.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2013.
Education rose from 2.4% to 3.2% of GDP between 1996 and 2013, then fell to 1.2% by 2023.
Gross debt fell from 94.7% to 43.0% of GDP between 2001 and 2011, then rose to 88.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.9 million in 1995 to 7.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 9.8 million by 2050.