Europe & Central Asia · 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
38.0%
-4.1 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.60%
-0.3 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
39.2%
of GDP · -40 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
2.4m
-20.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Moldova 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 2.9% to 5.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then fell to 4.7% by 2023.
Defence fell from 0.9% to 0.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2010, then rose to 0.6% by 2025.
Education fell from 9.9% to 4.5% of GDP between 1996 and 2000, then rose to 6.6% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 42.0% to 29.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then rose to 38.0% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 79.5% to 159.4% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 39.2% by 2025.
Population fell from 3.0 million in 1995 to 2.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.8 million by 2050.