Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · 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 · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
0.40%
-1.2 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · 2010
30.0%
of GDP · -123 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
25.6m
75.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Syrian Arab Republic 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 1.6% to 2.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then fell to 0.4% by 2023.
Defence fell from 6.9% to 4.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2010.
Education rose from 3.7% to 6.5% of GDP between 1996 and 2003, then fell to 5.1% by 2009.
Gross debt fell from 152.6% to 30.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2010.
Population grew from 14.6 million in 1995 to 25.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 37.8 million by 2050.