Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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
6.26%
+4.6 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
3.57%
-0.4 pts since 1997
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
153.8%
of GDP · +94 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
7.5m
52.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Libya 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 1.6% to 6.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 4.0% to 0.9% of GDP between 1997 and 2007, then rose to 3.6% by 2023.
Gross debt rose from 59.7% to 238.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 153.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.9 million in 1995 to 7.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 9.3 million by 2050.