South Asia · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, rev
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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
0.97%
+0.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
47.4%
of GDP · -3 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
29.6m
33.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Nepal 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 0.5% to 1.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 0.8% to 1.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2005, then fell to 1.0% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.9% to 4.8% of GDP between 1998 and 2017, then fell to 3.7% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 50.8% to 25.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2016, then rose to 47.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 22.2 million in 1995 to 29.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 34.6 million by 2050.