Turkmenistan: Health spending as percent of GDP
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| Turkmenistan |
Health spending as percent of GDP |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 5.57 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Measure | percent |
| Data availability | 2000 - 2021 |
| Average | 4.64 |
| Min - Max | 2.85 - 6.26 |
| Source | The World Bank |
The latest value from 2021 is 5.57 percent, a decline from 5.68 percent in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 7.21 percent, based on data from 181 countries. Historically, the average for Turkmenistan from 2000 to 2021 is 4.64 percent. The minimum value, 2.85 percent, was reached in 2009 while the maximum of 6.26 percent was recorded in 2004.
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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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| Related indicators | Latest | Reference | Measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health spending per capita | 565.26 | 2021 | U.S. dollars |
| Health spending as percent of GDP | 5.57 | 2021 | percent |
| Life expectancy | 69.41 | 2022 | years |
| Life expectancy, female | 72.92 | 2022 | years |
| Life expectancy, male | 65.92 | 2022 | years |
| Birth rate | 20.75 | 2022 | births per 1000 people |
| Death rate | 6.59 | 2022 | deaths per 1000 people |
| Fertility rate | 2.62 | 2022 | births per woman |
| Tuberculosis | 48.00 | 2022 | cases per 100,000 people |
| Diabetes prevalence | 6.70 | 2021 | percent |
| Prevalence of anemia among children | 33.10 | 2019 | percent |
| Prevalence of undernourishment | 5.70 | 2021 | percent |
| Access to drinking water, rural | 92.3 | 2022 | percent |
| Access to drinking water, urban | 97.1 | 2022 | percent |
| Suicides | 5.70 | 2019 | suicides per 100,000 people |
| DPT immunization rate | 98 | 2022 | percent |
| Hepatitis B immunization rate | 98 | 2022 | percent |
| Measles immunization rate | 98 | 2022 | percent |
| Traffic accident deaths | 13.50 | 2019 | deaths per 100,000 people |