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
21.0%
+5.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.93%
-1.4 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
3.53%
-0.7 pts since 1998
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
38.2%
of GDP · +21 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
7.0m
53.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Paraguay 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 2.3% to 4.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 2.3% to 0.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 0.9% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.2% to 2.6% of GDP between 1998 and 2014, then rose to 3.5% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 15.7% to 11.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 21.0% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 17.6% to 50.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then fell to 38.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.6 million in 1995 to 7.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 8.6 million by 2050.