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
18.7%
+4.8 pts since 1997
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.97%
-0.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
53.2%
of GDP · +9 pts since 1997
Population · 2025
51.4m
148.6% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Uganda 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 0.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2019, then rose to 0.9% by 2023.
Defence fell from 2.1% to 0.9% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then rose to 2.0% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.5% to 5.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2004, then fell to 2.6% by 2022.
Total spending rose from 13.9% to 22.0% of GDP between 1997 and 2021, then fell to 18.7% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 44.2% to 14.8% of GDP between 1997 and 2009, then rose to 53.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 20.7 million in 1995 to 51.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 85.4 million by 2050.