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
12.3%
+3.4 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.56%
+0.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
36.1%
of GDP · +12 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
237.5m
114.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Nigeria 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 0.6% to 1.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then fell to 0.6% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.5% to 0.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education fell from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP between 2012 and 2023.
Total spending rose from 8.9% to 21.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then fell to 12.3% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 24.2% to 5.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 36.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 110.8 million in 1995 to 237.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 359.2 million by 2050.