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Health spending as percent of GDP, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 44 countries was 9.02 percent. The highest value was in Germany: 12.93 percent and the lowest value was in Monaco: 3.68 percent. The indicator is available from 2000 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: percent; Source: The World Bank
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Countries Health spending as percent of GDP, 2021 Global rank Available data
Germany 12.93 1 2000 - 2022
UK 12.36 2 2000 - 2022
France 12.31 3 2000 - 2021
Austria 12.1 4 2000 - 2021
Switzerland 11.8 5 2000 - 2021
Netherlands 11.29 6 2000 - 2021
Sweden 11.25 7 2000 - 2022
Portugal 11.14 8 2000 - 2022
Belgium 11.04 9 2000 - 2021
Denmark 10.82 10 2000 - 2022
Spain 10.74 11 2000 - 2021
Malta 10.58 12 2000 - 2021
Montenegro 10.55 13 2011 - 2021
Finland 10.25 14 2000 - 2021
Norway 10.08 15 2000 - 2022
Serbia 10.01 16 2000 - 2021
Iceland 9.73 17 2000 - 2022
Bosnia & Herz. 9.56 18 2000 - 2021
Czechia 9.49 19 2000 - 2021
Slovenia 9.48 20 2000 - 2022
Cyprus 9.43 21 2000 - 2021
Italy 9.38 22 2000 - 2022
Greece 9.17 23 2000 - 2021
Latvia 9.04 24 2000 - 2021
Bulgaria 8.56 25 2000 - 2021
North Macedonia 8.52 26 2000 - 2021
Andorra 8.33 27 2000 - 2021
Croatia 8.1 28 2000 - 2021
Ukraine 8.01 29 2000 - 2021
San Marino 7.98 30 2001 - 2021
Lithuania 7.82 31 2000 - 2022
Moldova 7.75 32 2000 - 2021
Slovakia 7.75 33 2000 - 2021
Estonia 7.49 34 2000 - 2022
Russia 7.39 35 2000 - 2021
Hungary 7.38 36 2000 - 2021
Albania 7.27 37 2000 - 2021
Ireland 6.72 38 2000 - 2022
Belarus 6.57 39 2000 - 2021
Romania 6.48 40 2000 - 2021
Poland 6.44 41 2000 - 2022
Luxembourg 5.67 42 2000 - 2022
Turkey 4.57 43 2000 - 2021
Monaco 3.68 44 2000 - 2021



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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