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
39.9%
+10.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.75%
+0.8 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
9.08%
+2.0 pts since 1999
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
67.5%
of GDP · +50 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
3.1m
93.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Namibia 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 5.6% to 4.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then rose to 5.5% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.9% to 4.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 2.8% by 2025.
Education fell from 7.1% to 1.4% of GDP between 1999 and 2017, then rose to 9.1% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 29.6% to 43.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 39.9% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 18.0% to 70.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2022, then fell to 67.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.6 million in 1995 to 3.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 4.5 million by 2050.