East Asia & Pacific · 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
22.7%
+7.4 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.05%
-1.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
64.7%
of GDP · +50 pts since 1996
Population · 2025
71.6m
21.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Thailand 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 1.7% to 3.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 2.3% to 1.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 3.1% to 5.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2000, then fell to 2.5% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 15.3% to 26.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2021, then fell to 22.7% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 15.2% to 64.7% of GDP between 1996 and 2025.
Population grew from 59.1 million in 1995 to 71.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 66.4 million by 2050.