Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country

World map of total annual healthcare expenditure by country as a share of GDP.

This article includes 2 lists of countries of the world and their total expenditure on health as a percent of national gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is a measure of the total economy of a nation. Total expenditure includes both public and private health expenditures. See also: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

The first table lists member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The next table lists nearly all countries. It uses data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

A country list from OECD Data at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ^{[2] [3]}

Table 1

Location links below are "Healthcare in <location>" links.

Total health spending as a percent of GDP (gross domestic product)

Location	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010	2020	2024
Australia		5.8	6.5	7.6	8.4	10.7	10.3
Austria	4.8	7	7.7	9.2	10.2	11.4	11.8
Belgium	3.9	6.2	7.1	8	10.2	11.5	11
Canada	6.3	6.5	8.4	8.2	10.7	13	11.3
Chile				7	6.8	9.7	10.5
Colombia				5.6	7.1	8.7	8.1
Costa Rica				6.6	8	7.8	6.9
Czech Republic			3.7	5.7	7.6	9	8.5
Denmark		8.4	8	8.1	10.6	10.7	9.4
Estonia				5.2	6.6	7.5	7.6
Finland	5	5.9	7.3	7.1	9.1	9.7	10.6
France	5.2	6.8	8	9.6	11.2	12.1	11.5
Germany	5.7	8.1	8	9.9	11.1	12.5	12.3
Greece			6.1	7.2	9.6	9.4	8.1
Hungary				6.8	7.4	7.2	6.5
Iceland	4.7	5.9	7.4	8.9	8.4	9.6	9
Ireland	4.9	7.5	5.6	5.9	10.5	7	6.9
Israel		6.7	6.2	6.6	6.9	7.7	7.6
Italy			7	7.6	8.9	9.6	8.4
Japan	4.3	6.1	5.7	7	9.1	11.4	10.6
Latvia				5.4	6.1	7.5	7.5
Lithuania				6.2	6.8	7.4	6.9
Luxembourg		4.8	5.3	5.9	6.7	5.8	5.9
Mexico				4.4	5.7	6.1	5.9
Netherlands		6.5	7	7.7	10.2	11	10
New Zealand	5.1	5.8	6.7	7.5	9.6	9.7	11.1
Norway	4	5.4	7.1	7.7	8.9	11.4	9.7
Poland			4.3	5.3	6.5	6.4	8.1
Portugal	2.3	4.8	5.5	8.6	10	10.5	10.2
Slovakia				5.3	7.7	7.1	8.4
Slovenia				7.8	8.6	9.5	9.9
South Korea	2.6	3.4	3.6	3.9	5.8	8	8.4
Spain	3.1	5	6.1	6.8	9.1	10.8	9.2
Sweden	5.4	7.7	7.2	7.3	8.3	11.4	11.3
Switzerland	4.8	6.4	7.6	9.1	9.9	12.0	11.8
Turkey		2.4	2.4	4.6	5	4.6	4.7
United Kingdom	4	5.1	5.1	7.1	9.9	12.1	11.1
United States	6.2	8.2	11.2	12.5	16.2	18.5	17.2

Bar chart and graphs

Health spending by OECD country, and some other countries. Percent of GDP (gross domestic product). [2] [3]

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Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018. [4] See: list of countries by life expectancy.

Health care cost as percent of GDP over time for a few OECD countries. [2] [3]

World Health Organization

A country list from World Health Organization's Global Health Expenditure Database. ^[5] Years were selected to get the latest year for these 5 countries included in the table: Albania, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen.

Table 2

Asterisk (*) indicates "Healthcare in <location>" or "Health in <location>" links.

Total health spending as a percent of GDP (gross domestic product) ^[5]

Location	2011	2012	2014	2018	2020	2021
Afghanistan *	8.6	7.9	9.5	14.2	15.5	16.8
Albania *	6.1	6.1	6.4	6.7
Algeria *	5.3	6.0	6.5	6.2	6.3
Andorra *	7.7	6.7	6.8	7.4	9.1
Angola *	2.6	2.4	2.4	2.6	2.9
Antigua and Barbuda *	5.4	5.5	5.9	4.8	5.6
Argentina *	9.4	9.8	9.7	9.5	10.0
Armenia *	9.4	9.1	10.2	10.0	12.2
Australia *	8.5	8.7	9.8	10.1	10.6
Austria *	10.0	10.2	10.4	10.3	11.5	12.2
Azerbaijan *	2.4	3.0	3.4	3.6	4.6
Bahamas	5.3	5.3	5.6	6.0	7.6
Bahrain *	3.9	4.1	4.4	4.1	4.7
Bangladesh *	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.6
Barbados *	6.9	7.8	7.0	6.6	7.2
Belarus *	4.9	5.2	5.4	5.5	6.4
Belgium *	10.4	10.5	10.6	10.8	11.1
Belize *	5.7	5.4	6.2	5.8	6.9
Benin *	3.1	3.4	2.7	2.5	2.6
Bhutan *	3.3	3.6	3.6	3.2	4.4
Bolivia *	5.2	5.3	5.9	6.6	7.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina *	9.2	9.5	9.5	8.9	9.8
Botswana *	5.9	6.4	5.9	6.0	6.2
Brazil *	7.8	7.7	8.4	9.5	10.3
Brunei *	1.9	1.9	1.9	2.4	2.4
Bulgaria *	7.1	7.5	7.7	7.3	8.5
Burkina Faso *	4.6	4.6	5.0	5.0	6.7
Burundi *	10.1	8.5	7.2	7.4	6.5
Cape Verde *	4.3	5.1	5.3	5.2	6.0
Cambodia *	7.5	7.3	6.7	6.1	7.5
Cameroon *	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.6	3.8
Canada *	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.8	12.9	11.7
Central African Republic *	3.7	3.9	4.6	11.0	9.4
Chad *	3.9	3.9	4.3	4.6	5.4
Chile *	6.8	7.0	7.8	9.2	9.8	9.1
China *	4.3	4.6	4.8	5.2	5.6
Colombia *	6.8	6.7	7.2	7.6	9.0
Comoros *	5.3	5.2	5.2	4.9	5.3
Congo *	1.8	1.9	2.0	1.9	4.5
Cook Islands	3.6	3.2	3.3	2.7	3.2
Costa Rica *	8.1	7.8	7.7	7.3	7.9
Croatia *	7.7	7.7	6.6	6.8	7.8
Cuba *	11.3	9.3	12.1	11.0	12.5
Cyprus *	6.4	6.6	7.0	6.8	8.1
Czech Republic *	6.9	7.0	7.6	7.5	9.2
Denmark *	10.4	10.5	10.3	10.1	10.5	10.8
Djibouti *	3.4	3.3	3.0	2.3	2.0
Dominica *	5.3	5.8	5.3	6.1	5.6
Dominican Republic *	5.0	5.0	4.8	4.1	4.9
DR Congo *	3.3	3.3	4.0	3.3	4.1
Timor-Leste *	6.9	7.0	7.6	6.3	9.9
Ecuador *	6.5	6.8	6.7	7.9	8.5
Egypt *	4.4	4.7	5.0	5.0	4.4
El Salvador *	8.9	8.6	8.6	8.3	9.9
Equatorial Guinea *	1.6	1.3	2.2	3.1	3.8
Eritrea *	5.2	3.8	4.1	4.1	4.1
Estonia *	5.8	5.8	6.4	6.7	7.8	7.5
Eswatini *	8.5	7.8	7.3	7.2	6.5
Ethiopia *	4.5	4.5	4.0	3.3	3.5
Fiji *	3.1	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.7
Finland *	9.2	9.6	9.8	9.0	9.6
France *	11.2	11.3	11.5	11.2	12.2
Gabon *	2.6	2.4	2.5	2.7	3.4
Gambia	4.4	4.3	3.1	3.3	2.6
Georgia *	8.0	8.0	7.9	7.1	7.6
Germany *	10.8	10.9	11.0	11.5	12.8	12.8
Ghana *	4.7	4.0	4.0	3.4	4.0
Greece *	9.2	8.9	7.9	8.1	9.5
Grenada *	5.8	5.8	4.8	4.6	5.8
Guatemala *	6.0	6.1	5.9	6.1	6.5
Guinea *	3.8	3.5	4.8	3.7	4.0
Guinea-Bissau *	6.2	5.9	10.0	7.6	8.4
Guyana *	4.2	3.7	3.9	4.9	5.5
Haiti *	5.9	5.6	4.5	4.3	3.2
Honduras *	8.8	8.7	7.9	7.2	9.0	9.1
Hungary *	7.5	7.4	7.0	6.6	7.3
Iceland *	8.2	8.2	8.2	8.4	9.6	9.7
India *	3.2	3.3	3.6	2.9	3.0
Indonesia *	3.0	2.9	3.0	2.9	3.4
Iran *	6.1	6.1	6.4	7.5	5.3
Iraq *	2.8	2.7	2.8	4.1	5.1
Ireland *	10.6	10.6	9.5	6.9	7.1	6.7
Israel *	7.0	7.1	7.1	7.3	8.3
Italy *	8.8	8.8	8.9	8.7	9.6	9.5
Ivory Coast *	4.4	4.4	3.7	3.1	3.7
Jamaica *	5.2	4.9	5.2	6.0	6.6
Japan *	10.5	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.9
Jordan *	8.1	7.8	7.2	7.8	7.5
Kazakhstan *	2.6	3.0	3.0	2.8	3.8
Kenya *	5.2	5.0	4.9	4.1	4.3
Kiribati *	8.6	8.6	10.0	11.9	11.6
Kuwait *	2.3	2.3	2.9	5.2	6.3
Kyrgyzstan *	7.1	8.5	7.4	5.0	5.3
Laos *	1.9	2.1	2.3	2.2	2.7
Latvia *	5.7	5.4	5.5	6.2	7.4
Lebanon *	8.2	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.0
Lesotho *	9.5	9.2	9.1	11.0	11.8
Liberia *	9.4	8.8	9.2	9.8	9.5
Libya *	6.1
Lithuania *	6.5	6.3	6.2	6.5	7.5	7.9
Luxembourg *	6.0	5.3	5.2	5.3	5.8	5.4
Madagascar *	4.4	3.8	4.4	4.3	3.9
Malawi *	5.3	6.0	6.9	6.9	5.4
Malaysia *	3.3	3.5	3.7	3.8	4.1
Maldives *	7.9	8.7	7.9	7.4	11.3
Mali *	4.0	3.8	4.5	3.7	4.3
Malta *	8.4	8.4	9.1	8.6	10.8
Marshall Islands *	13.1	13.0	13.2	15.3	13.0
Mauritania *	2.5	2.6	3.5	3.4	3.4
Mauritius *	4.3	4.3	5.5	5.9	6.7
Mexico *	5.5	5.7	5.6	5.4	6.2
Micronesia *	13.1	12.3	11.7	11.7	11.6
Moldova *	9.1	9.1	8.6	6.6	6.8
Monaco *	2.2	2.2	2.1	1.6	1.7
Mongolia *	3.6	3.9	4.2	3.8	4.9
Montenegro *	8.0	8.3	8.0	8.3	11.4
Morocco *	5.8	5.8	5.9	5.3	6.0
Mozambique *	5.0	5.2	6.3	8.1	7.6
Myanmar *	1.9	2.4	4.4	4.9	4.6
Namibia *	9.8	9.3	8.4	8.3	8.9
Nauru *	9.8	9.2	7.9	11.7	12.0
Nepal *	4.4	4.5	5.1	4.5	5.2
Netherlands *	10.2	10.5	10.6	10.0	11.1	11.2
New Zealand *	9.5	9.7	9.4	9.0	10.0
Nicaragua *	7.4	7.5	8.0	8.5	8.6
Niger *	4.9	4.3	4.5	5.3	6.2
Nigeria *	3.3	3.4	3.3	3.1	3.4
Niue	19.8	10.3	10.8	8.3	7.8
North Macedonia *	6.5	6.6	6.3	6.5	7.9
Norway *	8.8	8.8	9.3	10.0	11.4	10.1
Oman *	2.5	2.6	3.6	3.7	5.3
Pakistan *	2.1	2.2	2.5	2.8	3.0
Palau	10.8	11.6	12.3	11.2	18.4
Panama *	7.1	6.7	7.2	7.9	9.7
Papua New Guinea *	2.3	2.7	3.3	2.3	2.5
Paraguay *	5.8	6.5	6.6	6.7	7.6
Peru *	4.5	4.7	5.0	5.2	6.3
Philippines *	4.0	4.2	3.7	4.0	5.1	5.6
Poland *	6.2	6.2	6.4	6.3	6.5	6.6
Portugal *	9.7	9.7	9.3	9.4	10.5	11.2
Qatar *	1.6	1.7	2.4	3.3	4.2
Romania *	4.7	4.7	5.0	5.6	6.3
Russia *	4.8	4.9	5.2	5.4	7.6
Rwanda *	7.9	8.1	7.0	6.7	7.3
Saint Kitts and Nevis *	5.2	5.0	4.7	4.9	5.4
Saint Lucia *	5.1	5.0	4.8	4.4	6.7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines *	4.2	4.5	4.2	4.1	4.8
Samoa *	5.4	5.1	6.6	5.1	5.3
San Marino *	8.2	9.2	8.5	8.5	8.7
São Tomé and Príncipe *	6.8	6.5	6.7	5.8	4.9
Saudi Arabia *	3.7	4.0	5.2	5.5
Senegal *	4.2	4.3	4.4	4.4	5.2
Serbia *	9.1	9.3	9.2	8.5	8.7
Seychelles *	4.8	5.7	4.6	5.0	6.4
Sierra Leone *	13.3	10.6	19.7	8.3	8.8
Singapore *	3.2	3.3	3.9	4.1	6.1
Slovakia *	7.3	7.6	6.9	6.7	7.2
Slovenia *	8.5	8.7	8.5	8.3	9.5	9.2
Solomon Islands *	5.0	4.9	4.9	3.9	4.4
South Africa *	7.9	8.0	7.9	8.1	8.6
South Korea *	6.0	6.1	6.5	7.5	8.4
South Sudan *				6.3	5.3
Spain *	9.2	9.2	9.1	9.0	10.7
Sri Lanka *	3.7	3.4	3.6	3.9	4.1
Sudan *	5.6	5.7	5.7	4.5	3.0
Suriname *	4.4	4.3	4.5	6.7	6.8
Sweden *	10.4	10.7	10.9	10.9	11.4	11.3
Switzerland *	10.0	10.2	10.6	11.4	11.8
Syria *	2.5	3.0
Tajikistan *	5.9	6.0	6.7	7.0	8.2
Thailand *	3.6	3.5	3.7	3.9	4.4
Togo *	4.6	4.8	5.1	6.0	6.0
Tonga *	3.8	4.8	5.0	4.8	5.3
Trinidad and Tobago *	4.7	4.9	5.2	6.7	7.3
Tunisia *	6.1	6.3	6.5	5.9	6.3
Turkey *	4.7	4.4	4.3	4.1	4.6
Turkmenistan *	3.2	3.4	4.3	5.7	5.7
Tuvalu *	14.1	13.6	14.7	18.2	21.5
Uganda *	6.7	6.1	5.3	4.0	4.0
Ukraine *	6.8	7.1	7.2	7.5	7.6
United Arab Emirates *	3.7	3.4	3.6	4.1	5.7
United Kingdom *	9.9	9.9	9.8	9.7	12.0	11.9
Tanzania *	5.1	5.0	4.0	4.2	3.7
United States *	16.1	16.1	16.2	16.6	18.8
Uruguay *	7.9	8.1	8.1	9.0	9.2
Uzbekistan *	5.3	5.5	4.4	5.1	6.7
Vanuatu *	3.6	3.9	3.6	3.3	4.0
Venezuela *	7.2	6.4	5.8	2.4	3.8
Vietnam *	4.6	5.0	4.6	5.0	4.7
Yemen *	4.8	5.2	4.8
Zambia *	3.5	3.9	3.8	5.1	5.6
Zimbabwe *	8.1	6.9	8.1	4.7	3.4

See also

• Health system
• Health care systems by country
• List of countries by hospital beds
• List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rate
• List of countries by maternal mortality ratio
• List of countries by total health expenditure by type of financing

Notes and references

1. "Total healthcare expenditure as a share of GDP". Our World in Data .
2. Health expenditure and financing. OECD data. Also includes some non-OECD countries at the end of the list. OECD = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Choose options from dropdown menus. See the "Financing scheme" menu. For the table pick "All financing schemes". Set "Function" menu to "Current expenditure on health (all functions)". Set "Provider" menu to "All providers". Set "Measure" menu to "Share of gross domestic product". Pick years. Pick countries. Then export to Excel, and open in a spreadsheet such as freeware LibreOffice Calc. Clean up table and copy to visual editor in a sandbox. See Help:Table.
3. OECD Data. Health resources - Health spending. doi : 10.1787/8643de7e-en. 2 charts: For both: From bottom menus: Countries menu > choose OECD. Check box for "latest data available". Perspectives menu > Check box to "compare variables". Then check the boxes for government/compulsory, voluntary, and total. Some charts will also need "out-of-pocket" checked (part of voluntary spending). Click top tab for chart (bar chart). For GDP chart choose "% of GDP" from bottom menu. For per capita chart choose "US dollars/per capita". Click fullscreen button above chart. Click "print screen" key. Click top tab for table, to see data list. Scroll down for multiple lists. Click download > "selected data only" to get the .csv file to create an article table. Uncheck the "compare variables" box first to get just the totals.
4. Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. By Max Roser at Our World in Data. Click the sources tab under the chart for info on the countries, healthcare expenditures, and data sources. See the later version of the chart here.
5. Global Health Expenditure Database. Data Explorer. World Health Organization. Set up a table by selecting options in the left sidebar. Then click "Download all data in XLSX format". It will have GDP to one decimal place. Then click "view data and build report" to get a table with year columns, and country rows. See if it still only has integer GDP numbers. Print it out, or download in various formats.