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
22.3%
+4.7 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.88%
-1.8 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
4.36%
+1.2 pts since 1996
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
30.1%
of GDP · -15 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
34.6m
42.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Peru 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 2.3% to 2.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2007, then rose to 3.6% by 2023.
Defence fell from 2.6% to 0.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education fell from 3.1% to 2.6% of GDP between 1996 and 2007, then rose to 4.4% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 17.5% to 25.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 22.3% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 44.9% to 19.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2013, then rose to 30.1% by 2025.
Population grew from 24.3 million in 1995 to 34.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 40.6 million by 2050.