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
26.4%
+13.7 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.18%
+0.3 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
64.9%
of GDP · +2 pts since 2005
Population · 2025
8.6m
109.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Togo 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 0.3% to 1.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2012, then fell to 0.7% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.9% to 4.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2022, then fell to 1.9% by 2025.
Education fell from 3.1% to 2.2% of GDP between 1996 and 2004, then rose to 4.1% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 12.7% to 8.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then rose to 26.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 63.1% to 33.5% of GDP between 2005 and 2010, then rose to 64.9% by 2025.
Population grew from 4.1 million in 1995 to 8.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 14.0 million by 2050.