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
6.39%
-6.5 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
204.4%
of GDP · -35 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
51.7m
109.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Sudan 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 1.2% to 2.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then fell to 0.6% by 2023.
Defence rose from 2.1% to 5.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then fell to 0.9% by 2021.
Education rose from 1.0% to 2.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2009.
Total spending rose from 12.9% to 19.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2005, then fell to 6.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 239.0% to 53.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2007, then rose to 204.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 24.7 million in 1995 to 51.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 85.2 million by 2050.