Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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
16.5%
-14.6 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.25%
-4.5 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
1.22%
-1.0 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
139.4%
of GDP · -9 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
5.8m
47.7% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Lebanon 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 3.2% to 4.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2019, then fell to 2.1% by 2023.
Defence fell from 6.7% to 1.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2022, then rose to 2.5% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.2% to 2.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then fell to 1.2% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 31.1% to 10.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then rose to 16.5% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 148.1% to 357.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2021, then fell to 139.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.0 million in 1995 to 5.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 7.0 million by 2050.