Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
16.2%
+1.7 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.71%
-0.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
47.7%
of GDP · -48 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
32.7m
133.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Madagascar 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 1.8% to 2.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2016, then fell to 1.0% by 2023.
Defence fell from 0.9% to 0.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 1.5% to 3.3% of GDP between 1997 and 2005, then fell to 3.0% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 14.5% to 21.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then fell to 16.2% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 95.8% to 28.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then rose to 47.7% by 2025.
Population grew from 14.1 million in 1995 to 32.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 53.2 million by 2050.