East Asia & Pacific · 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
20.7%
-4.5 pts since 1998
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
6.60%
+2.9 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
51.9%
of GDP · -157 pts since 1998
Population · 2025
54.9m
28.7% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Myanmar 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 0.3% to 1.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2015, then fell to 0.5% by 2023.
Defence fell from 3.7% to 1.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then rose to 6.6% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 25.2% to 14.3% of GDP between 1998 and 2003, then rose to 20.7% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 208.6% to 262.0% of GDP between 1998 and 2001, then fell to 51.9% by 2025.
Population grew from 42.6 million in 1995 to 54.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 58.6 million by 2050.