Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF02, 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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
2.13%
-1.4 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
5.03%
+2.3 pts since 2002
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
59.1%
of GDP · -359 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
0.2m
78.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Sao Tome and Principe 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 3.5% to 6.1% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then fell to 2.1% by 2023.
Education rose from 2.7% to 10.0% of GDP between 2002 and 2009, then fell to 5.0% by 2023.
Gross debt fell from 418.4% to 59.1% of GDP between 2001 and 2025.
Population grew from 0.1 million in 1995 to 0.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.4 million by 2050.