East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing GF10, GF02, 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
41.1%
+13.1 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
7.64%
-0.0 pts since 1998
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
36.2%
of GDP · +14 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
0.3m
100.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Vanuatu 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 2.5% to 0.6% of GDP between 2000 and 2014, then rose to 2.3% by 2023.
Education fell from 7.6% to 1.8% of GDP between 1998 and 2019, then rose to 7.6% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 28.0% to 18.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2005, then rose to 41.1% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 21.8% to 46.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2017, then fell to 36.2% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.2 million in 1995 to 0.3 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.5 million by 2050.