Sub-Saharan Africa · 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
32.8%
+13.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.54%
-0.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
6.03%
+0.4 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
44.8%
of GDP · +32 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
1.3m
29.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Eswatini 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 2.4% to 4.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2009, then fell to 3.2% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.7% to 2.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2010, then fell to 1.6% by 2025.
Education rose from 5.7% to 7.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 6.0% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 19.9% to 34.5% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 32.8% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 12.5% to 10.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then rose to 44.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.0 million in 1995 to 1.3 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.5 million by 2050.