Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
29.2%
+9.0 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
96.9%
of GDP · +81 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.6m
48.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Suriname 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 2.8% to 6.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2019, then fell to 3.4% by 2023.
Education rose from 5.5% to 6.8% of GDP between 2015 and 2019, then fell to 2.9% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 20.2% to 40.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2019, then fell to 29.2% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 16.3% to 151.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 96.9% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.4 million in 1995 to 0.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.7 million by 2050.