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
37.5%
+10.9 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.76%
-0.9 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
5.21%
+1.3 pts since 1997
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
45.0%
of GDP · +4 pts since 2006
Population · 2025
3.6m
60.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Mongolia 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 4.6% to 2.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2018, then rose to 2.7% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.6% to 2.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then fell to 0.9% by 2025.
Education rose from 3.9% to 7.2% of GDP between 1997 and 2002, then fell to 5.2% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 26.6% to 39.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2016, then fell to 37.5% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 40.9% to 86.9% of GDP between 2006 and 2017, then fell to 45.0% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.2 million in 1995 to 3.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 4.6 million by 2050.