Latin America & Caribbean · 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
31.4%
+12.8 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.39%
+0.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
3.32%
+0.8 pts since 1998
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
87.6%
of GDP · +60 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
6.4m
10.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for El Salvador 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 3.9% to 5.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.2% to 0.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then rose to 1.3% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.5% to 4.7% of GDP between 1998 and 2009, then fell to 3.3% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 18.6% to 32.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 31.4% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 28.0% to 95.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 87.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 5.8 million in 1995 to 6.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 6.7 million by 2050.