Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
33.2%
+14.5 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.12%
+1.0 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
90.3%
of GDP · -4 pts since 1999
Population · 2025
35.6m
123.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Mozambique 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 1.1% to 2.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.1% to 0.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2006, then rose to 1.9% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.8% to 6.4% of GDP between 1998 and 2014, then fell to 6.0% by 2022.
Total spending rose from 18.8% to 39.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 33.2% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 94.7% to 31.2% of GDP between 1999 and 2007, then rose to 90.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 16.0 million in 1995 to 35.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 63.5 million by 2050.