Health spending

All spending on health, public and private, as a share of GDP.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: World Health Organization, Global Health Expenditure Database
years covered: 2000–2024
subject: Society

Neither end of this scale is better. It is context, not a score.

How this is measured

Current spending on health from every source — government, compulsory insurance, voluntary insurance and households — over GDP, excluding capital investment. Not a measure of how good or how accessible healthcare is: the United States spends the largest share in the world, and reads that way here.

Highest first for 2023

164 countries and territories have a figure for 2023. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 2000.

#	Country	Region	Health spend
1	United States	Americas	16.7%
2	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	15.0%
3	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.0%
4	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.6%
5	Germany	Europe	11.7%
6	Switzerland	Europe	11.7%
7	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	11.6%
8	France	Europe	11.5%
9	Canada	Americas	11.2%
10	Austria	Europe	11.2%
11	Sweden	Europe	11.2%
12	United Kingdom	Europe	11.0%
13	Belgium	Europe	10.8%
14	Japan	Asia-Pacific	10.7%
15	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	10.7%
16	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	10.7%
17	Finland	Europe	10.5%
18	Australia	Asia-Pacific	10.4%
19	Argentina	Americas	10.3%
20	Chile	Americas	10.2%
21	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	10.1%
22	Portugal	Europe	10.0%
23	Netherlands	Europe	9.8%
24	Brazil	Americas	9.7%
25	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	9.7%
26	Montenegro	Europe	9.7%
27	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	9.6%
28	Denmark	Europe	9.6%
29	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.5%
30	Norway	Europe	9.4%
31	Cuba	Americas	9.4%
32	Armenia	Eurasia	9.3%
33	Slovenia	Europe	9.3%
34	El Salvador	Americas	9.3%
35	Spain	Europe	9.2%
36	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.1%
37	Uruguay	Americas	9.0%
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	8.9%
39	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.9%
40	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.8%
41	Iceland	Europe	8.7%
42	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	8.6%
43	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.5%
44	Czechia	Europe	8.4%
45	Italy	Europe	8.4%
46	Greece	Europe	8.4%
47	Paraguay	Americas	8.4%
48	Panama	Americas	8.3%
49	Nicaragua	Americas	8.3%
50	Colombia	Americas	8.2%
51	Cyprus	Europe	8.1%
52	Serbia	Europe	8.0%
53	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	8.0%
54	Bulgaria	Europe	7.9%
55	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	7.8%
56	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.8%
57	Honduras	Americas	7.7%
58	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	7.7%
59	Jamaica	Americas	7.6%
60	Ecuador	Americas	7.6%
61	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	7.5%
62	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.5%
63	Estonia	Europe	7.5%
64	Tajikistan	Eurasia	7.4%
65	North Macedonia	Europe	7.4%
66	Slovakia	Europe	7.4%
67	Lithuania	Europe	7.3%
68	Latvia	Europe	7.3%
69	Croatia	Europe	7.1%
70	Poland	Europe	7.1%
71	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	7.1%
72	Belarus	Eurasia	7.1%
73	Albania	Europe	7.1%
74	Russia	Eurasia	7.0%
75	Bolivia	Americas	6.9%
76	Costa Rica	Americas	6.9%
77	Georgia	Eurasia	6.9%
78	Guatemala	Americas	6.8%
79	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	6.7%
80	Moldova	Eurasia	6.7%
81	Ireland	Europe	6.6%
82	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.5%
83	Hungary	Europe	6.4%
84	Bahamas	Americas	6.3%
85	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.3%
86	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	6.2%
87	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.1%
88	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	6.1%
89	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	6.1%
90	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	6.0%
91	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.0%
92	China	Asia-Pacific	5.9%
93	Luxembourg	Europe	5.8%
94	Romania	Europe	5.7%
95	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	5.7%
96	Peru	Americas	5.6%
97	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	5.6%
98	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	5.5%
99	Mexico	Americas	5.5%
100	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	5.5%
101	Suriname	Americas	5.4%
102	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	5.4%
103	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.1%
104	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	5.1%
105	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.0%
106	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	5.0%
107	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	5.0%
108	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	4.9%
109	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.7%
110	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	4.6%
111	Dominican Republic	Americas	4.6%
112	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	4.6%
113	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.6%
114	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	4.5%
115	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	4.5%
116	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	4.5%
117	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	4.4%
118	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.4%
119	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	4.4%
120	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.3%
121	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.3%
122	Turkey	Eurasia	4.3%
123	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	4.3%
124	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.2%
125	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.2%
126	Belize	Americas	4.1%
127	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	4.1%
128	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.0%
129	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	4.0%
130	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.8%
131	Venezuela	Americas	3.8%
132	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	3.8%
133	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.7%
134	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.7%
135	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.7%
136	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.7%
137	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	3.7%
138	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	3.6%
139	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.5%
140	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	3.5%
141	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.4%
142	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.4%
143	India	Asia-Pacific	3.3%
144	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.3%
145	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.3%
146	Haiti	Americas	3.2%
147	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.1%
148	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.1%
149	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.9%
150	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.9%
151	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.9%
152	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	2.9%
153	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.9%
154	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.8%
155	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	2.7%
156	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	2.7%
157	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.5%
158	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	2.5%
159	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	2.5%
160	Guyana	Americas	2.5%
161	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.3%
162	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	2.2%
163	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	2.2%
164	Laos	Asia-Pacific	1.3%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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