Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
28.8%
+10.8 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.23%
+0.6 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
4.61%
+0.8 pts since 1999
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
64.7%
of GDP · -36 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
14.6m
156.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Rwanda 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 0.6% to 2.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 0.6% to 1.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 3.9% to 5.6% of GDP between 1999 and 2021, then fell to 4.6% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 18.0% to 33.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 28.8% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 100.8% to 18.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 64.7% by 2025.
Population grew from 5.7 million in 1995 to 14.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 22.7 million by 2050.