East Asia & Pacific · 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
20.4%
+3.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.31%
-0.5 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
51.6%
of GDP · +15 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
10.8m
131.7% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Papua New Guinea 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 1.7% to 2.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 0.8% to 0.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education fell from 1.6% to 0.8% of GDP between 2015 and 2023.
Total spending rose from 17.1% to 27.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2013, then fell to 20.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 36.6% to 16.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2011, then rose to 51.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.6 million in 1995 to 10.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 14.9 million by 2050.