East Asia & Pacific · 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%
+3.1 pts since 1998
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.80%
-0.3 pts since 2003
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
30.5%
of GDP · +6 pts since 2000
Population · 2025
101.6m
41.0% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Viet Nam 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 1.7% to 2.2% of GDP between 2000 and 2012, then fell to 2.0% by 2023.
Defence rose from 2.1% to 2.7% of GDP between 2003 and 2009, then fell to 2.2% by 2025.
Education fell from 4.9% to 2.9% of GDP between 2008 and 2022.
Total spending rose from 16.0% to 25.0% of GDP between 1998 and 2009, then fell to 19.1% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 24.8% to 47.9% of GDP between 2000 and 2016, then fell to 30.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 72.0 million in 1995 to 101.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 110.0 million by 2050.