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
13.4%
+0.9 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.20%
+1.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
45.5%
of GDP · -24 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
27.9m
187.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Niger 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 2.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 1.0% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.0% to 0.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2005, then rose to 2.1% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.3% to 5.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 4.1% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 12.5% to 24.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then fell to 13.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 69.4% to 14.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 45.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 9.7 million in 1995 to 27.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 52.5 million by 2050.