Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · G20
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
29.6%
-2.8 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
6.41%
-2.9 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
31.8%
of GDP · -42 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
37.0m
178.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Saudi Arabia 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 3.0% to 1.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2008, then rose to 4.4% by 2023.
Defence rose from 9.3% to 14.3% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 6.5% by 2025.
Education rose from 5.7% to 8.3% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 4.5% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 32.4% to 38.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 29.6% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 74.2% to 1.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then rose to 31.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 13.3 million in 1995 to 37.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 50.5 million by 2050.