Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, 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 · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
0.56%
-2.6 pts since 1995
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
38.0%
of GDP · +16 pts since 2005
Population · 2025
17.0m
54.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Zimbabwe 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 2.8% to 0.5% of GDP between 2010 and 2019, then rose to 0.9% by 2023.
Defence rose from 3.2% to 6.3% of GDP between 1995 and 2002, then fell to 0.6% by 2025.
Gross debt rose from 22.4% to 38.0% of GDP between 2005 and 2025.
Population grew from 11.0 million in 1995 to 17.0 million in 2025; the UN projects 25.9 million by 2050.