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
0.15%
-0.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
86.8%
of GDP · +30 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
1.2m
10.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Mauritius 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 1.5% to 2.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 0.3% to 0.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education fell from 3.9% to 3.0% of GDP between 1999 and 2002, then rose to 4.2% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 56.9% to 48.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2007, then rose to 86.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.1 million in 1995 to 1.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.1 million by 2050.