Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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
28.7%
-9.6 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
5.59%
-5.4 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
34.7%
of GDP · +13 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
5.5m
159.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Oman 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 2.2% to 4.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 3.0% by 2023.
Defence fell from 11.0% to 5.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 5.7% by 2025.
Education rose from 3.0% to 4.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2022.
Total spending rose from 38.2% to 44.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2016, then fell to 28.7% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 21.9% to 67.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 34.7% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.1 million in 1995 to 5.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 7.8 million by 2050.