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
33.8%
-19.3 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.27%
-1.0 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
51.2%
of GDP · -82 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.1m
63.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Seychelles 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 3.8% to 2.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then rose to 3.1% by 2023.
Defence fell from 2.3% to 0.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2010, then rose to 1.2% by 2025.
Education fell from 7.2% to 2.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2012, then rose to 4.5% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 53.1% to 60.7% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 33.8% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 133.5% to 199.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then fell to 51.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.1 million by 2050.