Latin America & Caribbean · 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
32.5%
+5.7 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
0.98%
+0.8 pts since 2001
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
84.0%
of GDP · +27 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
1.4m
5.6% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Trinidad and Tobago 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 1.6% to 3.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 0.2% to 0.9% of GDP between 2001 and 2025.
Education rose from 3.6% to 4.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2015, then fell to 3.2% by 2023.
Total spending fell from 26.7% to 23.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2004, then rose to 32.5% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 57.3% to 24.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 84.0% by 2025.
Population grew from 1.3 million in 1995 to 1.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 1.3 million by 2050.