Europe & Central Asia · 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
27.7%
+10.5 pts since 1998
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.33%
+0.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
18.6%
of GDP · -78 pts since 1998
Population · 2025
10.8m
81.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Tajikistan 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 0.9% to 2.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 1.9% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.1% to 0.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2001, then rose to 1.5% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.1% to 5.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2016, then fell to 5.4% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 17.1% to 33.8% of GDP between 1998 and 2017, then fell to 27.7% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 96.6% to 18.6% of GDP between 1998 and 2025.
Population grew from 5.9 million in 1995 to 10.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 15.6 million by 2050.