Latin America & Caribbean · 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
27.1%
+9.4 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.55%
-0.6 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
34.6%
of GDP · -52 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
7.0m
50.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Nicaragua 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 2.6% to 2.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then rose to 4.8% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.1% to 0.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 2.2% to 4.6% of GDP between 1998 and 2019, then fell to 2.9% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 17.7% to 30.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then fell to 27.1% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 86.4% to 110.4% of GDP between 1997 and 2002, then fell to 34.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.6 million in 1995 to 7.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 8.8 million by 2050.