East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
35.8%
+16.5 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
29.6%
of GDP · +8 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
0.8m
118.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Solomon Islands 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 4.4% to 6.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2005, then fell to 3.4% by 2023.
Education rose from 2.3% to 9.6% of GDP between 1998 and 2020, then fell to 8.3% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 19.3% to 41.8% of GDP between 1997 and 2013, then fell to 35.8% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 21.9% to 55.5% of GDP between 1997 and 2002, then fell to 29.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.4 million in 1995 to 0.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.3 million by 2050.