Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
0.85%
+0.5 pts since 2004
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
55.1%
of GDP · -413 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
5.7m
164.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Liberia 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 0.6% to 1.7% of GDP between 2000 and 2018, then fell to 1.3% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.4% to 0.9% of GDP between 2004 and 2025.
Education rose from 1.7% to 2.7% of GDP between 2008 and 2017, then fell to 2.3% by 2023.
Gross debt rose from 468.1% to 600.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then fell to 55.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.2 million in 1995 to 5.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 8.9 million by 2050.