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
1.15%
+0.8 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
96.6%
of GDP · -5 pts since 2002
Population · 2025
22.2m
118.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Malawi 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 1.0% to 1.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2016, then fell to 0.8% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.3% to 1.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 2.8% to 3.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 2.7% by 2022.
Gross debt fell from 101.5% to 17.9% of GDP between 2002 and 2006, then rose to 96.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 10.2 million in 1995 to 22.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 37.4 million by 2050.