East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF02, 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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
6.61%
+2.0 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
3.44%
-4.4 pts since 2000
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
52.8%
of GDP · +16 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
0.0m
2.7% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Palau 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 4.6% to 3.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2008, then rose to 6.6% by 2023.
Education fell from 7.8% to 3.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Gross debt fell from 36.9% to 15.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2012, then rose to 52.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.0 million in 1995 to 0.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.0 million by 2050.