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
33.5%
+19.1 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.97%
+0.7 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
127.7%
of GDP · +128 pts since 1996
Population · 2025
18.9m
114.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Senegal 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 1.3% to 1.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2006, then fell to 1.2% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.3% to 1.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then rose to 1.6% by 2025.
Education fell from 2.5% to 0.5% of GDP between 1998 and 2010, then rose to 6.2% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 14.4% to 13.5% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then rose to 33.5% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 0.1% to 127.7% of GDP between 1996 and 2025.
Population grew from 8.8 million in 1995 to 18.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 30.4 million by 2050.