Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, debt, 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
1.54%
+1.1 pts since 2013
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · —
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Population · 2025
19.7m
169.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Somalia, Fed. Rep. 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 0.1% to 0.5% of GDP between 2013 and 2023.
Defence rose from 0.4% to 1.5% of GDP between 2013 and 2025.
Education rose from 0.0% to 0.0% of GDP between 2018 and 2023.
Population grew from 7.3 million in 1995 to 19.7 million in 2025; the UN projects 37.2 million by 2050.