East Asia & Pacific · 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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
2.25%
+0.5 pts since 2005
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
13.3%
of GDP · +13 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
1.4m
63.4% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Timor-Leste 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 fell from 1.3% to 1.0% of GDP between 2003 and 2007, then rose to 7.5% by 2023.
Defence rose from 1.8% to 5.0% of GDP between 2005 and 2009, then fell to 2.3% by 2025.
Education fell from 8.7% to 5.2% of GDP between 2008 and 2023.
Gross debt rose from 0.0% to 13.3% of GDP between 2001 and 2025.
Population grew from 0.9 million in 1995 to 1.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.9 million by 2050.