East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, rev
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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
3.05%
-1.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
165.7%
of GDP · +96 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
6.1m
73.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Singapore 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 3.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 2.6% by 2023.
Defence rose from 4.2% to 5.2% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then fell to 3.0% by 2025.
Education rose from 3.3% to 4.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then fell to 2.2% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 69.8% to 165.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Population grew from 3.5 million in 1995 to 6.1 million in 2025; the UN projects 6.3 million by 2050.