Europe & Central Asia · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, 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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
2.76%
-0.4 pts since 1996
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
42.2%
of GDP · -158 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
6.5m
-14.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Serbia 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 3.8% to 5.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 3.2% to 4.6% of GDP between 1996 and 2000, then fell to 2.8% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.0% to 3.4% of GDP between 2007 and 2023.
Gross debt fell from 200.6% to 29.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2008, then rose to 42.2% by 2025.
Population fell from 7.6 million in 1995 to 6.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 5.4 million by 2050.