Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
0.37%
-0.9 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
51.4%
of GDP · -62 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
8.8m
111.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Sierra Leone 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 0.6% to 0.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 1.2% to 1.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then fell to 0.4% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.9% to 1.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2008, then rose to 2.6% by 2023.
Gross debt fell from 113.5% to 22.3% of GDP between 2001 and 2013, then rose to 51.4% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.2 million in 1995 to 8.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 12.9 million by 2050.