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
3.42%
-2.3 pts since 2008
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
64.2%
of GDP · +64 pts since 2011
Population · 2025
12.2m
133.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for South Sudan 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 fell from 1.9% to 0.5% of GDP between 2017 and 2023.
Defence rose from 5.8% to 8.8% of GDP between 2008 and 2012, then fell to 3.4% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.0% to 1.6% of GDP between 2010 and 2016.
Gross debt rose from 0.0% to 128.9% of GDP between 2011 and 2016, then fell to 64.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 5.2 million in 1995 to 12.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 18.3 million by 2050.