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
19.1%
+3.5 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.17%
-0.5 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
3.16%
+1.4 pts since 1996
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
49.8%
of GDP · -1 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
70.5m
132.2% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Tanzania 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 0.7% to 2.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2006, then fell to 1.0% by 2023.
Defence fell from 1.6% to 0.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 1.2% by 2025.
Education rose from 1.7% to 4.6% of GDP between 1996 and 2013, then fell to 3.2% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 15.6% to 11.4% of GDP between 1995 and 1998, then rose to 19.1% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 50.8% to 21.6% of GDP between 2001 and 2008, then rose to 49.8% by 2025.
Population grew from 30.4 million in 1995 to 70.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 129.6 million by 2050.