Europe & Central Asia · NATO · 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
36.7%
+4.5 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.77%
-1.0 pts since 1996
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
52.6%
of GDP · +23 pts since 1999
Population · 2025
1.8m
-8.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for North Macedonia 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 4.7% to 3.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2017, then rose to 4.3% by 2023.
Defence rose from 2.8% to 6.1% of GDP between 1996 and 2001, then fell to 2.0% by 2025.
Total spending fell from 32.3% to 30.3% of GDP between 1997 and 2018, then rose to 36.7% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 29.8% to 20.4% of GDP between 1999 and 2008, then rose to 52.6% by 2025.
Population fell from 2.0 million in 1995 to 1.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.5 million by 2050.