Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF02, GF0107, debt, rev, bal, fx
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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
4.45%
+1.7 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · —
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Population · 2025
5.4m
118.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for West Bank and Gaza 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 2.7% to 4.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Education fell from 6.2% to 4.7% of GDP between 2010 and 2015, then rose to 5.4% by 2021.
Population grew from 2.5 million in 1995 to 5.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 8.1 million by 2050.