Sub-Saharan Africa · 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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
3.87%
+2.4 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
40.3%
of GDP · -37 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
25.2m
147.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Mali 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 1.3% to 0.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2012, then rose to 1.3% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.5% to 1.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2013, then rose to 3.9% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.6% to 4.2% of GDP between 1998 and 2023.
Gross debt fell from 77.0% to 15.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2006, then rose to 40.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 10.2 million in 1995 to 25.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 46.2 million by 2050.