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
71.3%
+30.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
34.0%
+31.2 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
107.1%
of GDP · +77 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
39.0m
-24.6% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Ukraine 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 2.5% to 4.3% of GDP between 2000 and 2021.
Defence fell from 2.7% to 2.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2011, then rose to 39.6% by 2025.
Education rose from 5.5% to 7.1% of GDP between 1997 and 2009, then fell to 5.1% by 2021.
Total spending fell from 41.3% to 25.8% of GDP between 1995 and 1999, then rose to 71.3% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 29.9% to 11.8% of GDP between 1997 and 2007, then rose to 107.1% by 2025.
Population fell from 51.7 million in 1995 to 39.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 32.0 million by 2050.