Lebanon: Health spending as percent of GDP
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Lebanon |
Health spending as percent of GDP |
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Latest value | 10.06 |
Year | 2021 |
Measure | percent |
Data availability | 2000 - 2021 |
Average | 8.26 |
Min - Max | 7.00 - 10.83 |
Source | The World Bank |
The latest value from 2021 is 10.06 percent, an increase from 7.58 percent in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 7.21 percent, based on data from 181 countries. Historically, the average for Lebanon from 2000 to 2021 is 8.26 percent. The minimum value, 7 percent, was reached in 2012 while the maximum of 10.83 percent was recorded in 2000.
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Definition: Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks.
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Health spending per capita | 307.13 | 2021 | U.S. dollars |
Health spending as percent of GDP | 10.06 | 2021 | percent |
Life expectancy | 74.42 | 2022 | years |
Life expectancy, female | 76.60 | 2022 | years |
Life expectancy, male | 72.24 | 2022 | years |
Birth rate | 14.58 | 2022 | births per 1000 people |
Death rate | 8.86 | 2022 | deaths per 1000 people |
Fertility rate | 2.08 | 2022 | births per woman |
HIV infections | 0.10 | 2022 | percent |
Tuberculosis | 11.00 | 2022 | cases per 100,000 people |
Diabetes prevalence | 8.00 | 2021 | percent |
Prevalence of anemia among children | 22.80 | 2019 | percent |
Suicides | 2.80 | 2019 | suicides per 100,000 people |
DPT immunization rate | 67 | 2022 | percent |
Hepatitis B immunization rate | 67 | 2022 | percent |
Measles immunization rate | 67 | 2022 | percent |
Traffic accident deaths | 16.40 | 2019 | deaths per 100,000 people |