East Asia & Pacific · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF02, GF0107, rev
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
Not available
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
Not available
Education · 2024
5.46%
+1.4 pts since 1999
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
21.2%
of GDP · -38 pts since 1998
Population · 2025
0.2m
25.6% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Samoa 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 3.6% to 2.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2003, then rose to 4.7% by 2023.
Education rose from 4.0% to 5.5% of GDP between 1999 and 2024.
Gross debt fell from 58.9% to 21.2% of GDP between 1998 and 2025.
Population grew from 0.2 million in 1995 to 0.2 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.3 million by 2050.