Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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
26.0%
-26.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
42.5%
of GDP · -8 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
3.0m
477.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Qatar 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 1.2% to 3.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 2.1% by 2023.
Defence fell from 3.9% to 1.5% of GDP between 2002 and 2010, then rose to 6.5% by 2022.
Education rose from 3.6% to 4.5% of GDP between 1998 and 2010, then fell to 3.2% by 2020.
Total spending fell from 52.2% to 23.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 26.0% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 50.2% to 9.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then rose to 42.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.5 million in 1995 to 3.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 4.0 million by 2050.