East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
71.6%
+16.6 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
8.8%
of GDP · +0 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
0.0m
-24.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Marshall Islands 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 fell from 8.2% to 4.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2010, then rose to 10.1% by 2023.
Education fell from 13.8% to 7.7% of GDP between 1999 and 2022.
Total spending rose from 55.0% to 85.3% of GDP between 1997 and 2005, then fell to 71.6% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 8.7% to 46.8% of GDP between 1997 and 2004, then fell to 8.8% by 2025.
Population fell from 0.0 million in 1995 to 0.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.0 million by 2050.