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Domestic government health expenditure

Compare domestic government health expenditure across 192 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2023 official-source slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
3.7% of GDP
Median: 3.1% of GDP
Countries Covered
192
with available data
Highest
Tuvalu
19.7% of GDP
Lowest
Afghanistan
0.2% of GDP
Top 5 Countries
1Tuvalu19.7% of GDP
2Nauru15.2% of GDP
3Marshall Islands10.1% of GDP
4Sweden9.6% of GDP
5Germany9.3% of GDP
By Region
Key Findings
  • 192 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2023 observation.
  • Tuvalu has the highest published value (19.72272301 % of GDP).
  • Afghanistan has the lowest published value (0.24774949 % of GDP).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.2% of GDP)High (19.7% of GDP)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 3.7% of GDP)

About This Statistic

Public expenditure on health from domestic sources as a share of the economy as measured by GDP.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Public expenditure on health from domestic sources as a share of the economy as measured by GDP.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Tuvalu19.7% of GDP
2Nauru15.2% of GDP
3Marshall Islands10.1% of GDP
4Sweden9.6% of GDP
5Germany9.3% of GDP
6Japan9.1% of GDP
7United States of America9.0% of GDP
8United Kingdom9.0% of GDP
9Kiribati8.6% of GDP
10Austria8.5% of GDP
11Finland8.5% of GDP
12Norway8.1% of GDP
13Denmark8.0% of GDP
14Belgium8.0% of GDP
15New Zealand7.9% of GDP
16Canada7.9% of GDP
17Cuba7.8% of GDP
18France7.8% of GDP
19Australia7.7% of GDP
20Timor-Leste7.5% of GDP
21Maldives7.3% of GDP
22Iceland7.3% of GDP
23Czech Republic7.1% of GDP
24Slovenia6.8% of GDP
25Spain6.7% of GDP
26Netherlands6.7% of GDP
27Montenegro6.7% of GDP
28Palau6.6% of GDP
29Uruguay6.5% of GDP
30Libya6.3% of GDP
31Cyprus6.2% of GDP
32Argentina6.2% of GDP
33Portugal6.2% of GDP
34Italy6.1% of GDP
35Croatia6.0% of GDP
36Bosnia and Herzegovina6.0% of GDP
37Lesotho5.8% of GDP
38Malta5.8% of GDP
39Slovakia5.8% of GDP
40San Marino5.7% of GDP
41Colombia5.7% of GDP
42Estonia5.7% of GDP
43El Salvador5.6% of GDP
44Namibia5.5% of GDP
45Poland5.5% of GDP
46South Africa5.5% of GDP
47Andorra5.5% of GDP
48Serbia5.3% of GDP
49Chile5.3% of GDP
50Ireland5.0% of GDP
51South Korea5.0% of GDP
52Luxembourg5.0% of GDP
53Bulgaria5.0% of GDP
54Russian Federation4.9% of GDP
55Jamaica4.9% of GDP
56Nicaragua4.8% of GDP
57Lithuania4.8% of GDP
58Belarus4.7% of GDP
59Botswana4.7% of GDP
60Samoa4.7% of GDP
61Moldova, Republic of4.7% of GDP
62Ecuador4.7% of GDP
63Hungary4.7% of GDP
64Bolivia4.7% of GDP
65Paraguay4.6% of GDP
66Israel4.6% of GDP
67Costa Rica4.6% of GDP
68State of Palestine4.4% of GDP
69Saudi Arabia4.4% of GDP
70Kuwait4.4% of GDP
71Romania4.3% of GDP
72Latvia4.3% of GDP
73Tunisia4.3% of GDP
74Brazil4.3% of GDP
75The Republic of North Macedonia4.3% of GDP
76Panama4.3% of GDP
77Greece4.2% of GDP
78Liechtenstein3.9% of GDP
79Switzerland3.9% of GDP
80Trinidad and Tobago3.6% of GDP
81Peru3.6% of GDP
82Thailand3.5% of GDP
83Albania3.5% of GDP
84Jordan3.4% of GDP
85Morocco3.4% of GDP
86Cape Verde3.4% of GDP
87Tonga3.4% of GDP
88People's Republic of China3.4% of GDP
89Solomon Islands3.4% of GDP
90Dominica3.4% of GDP
91Suriname3.4% of GDP
92United Arab Emirates3.3% of GDP
93Türkiye3.2% of GDP
94Eswatini3.2% of GDP
95Bahamas3.2% of GDP
96Seychelles3.1% of GDP
97Saint Kitts and Nevis3.1% of GDP
98Saint Vincent and the Grenadines3.1% of GDP
99Oman3.0% of GDP
100Dominican Republic2.9% of GDP
101Bhutan2.9% of GDP
102Islamic Republic of Iran2.8% of GDP
103Mongolia2.7% of GDP
104Fiji2.7% of GDP
105Belize2.7% of GDP
106Mexico2.7% of GDP
107Monaco2.7% of GDP
108Singapore2.6% of GDP
109Iraq2.5% of GDP
110Kazakhstan2.5% of GDP
111Mauritius2.5% of GDP
112Honduras2.5% of GDP
113Burkina Faso2.5% of GDP
114Guatemala2.4% of GDP
115Zambia2.4% of GDP
116Rwanda2.4% of GDP
117Kyrgyzstan2.4% of GDP
118Uzbekistan2.4% of GDP
119Saint Lucia2.4% of GDP
120Bahrain2.4% of GDP
121Vanuatu2.3% of GDP
122Georgia2.3% of GDP
123Algeria2.3% of GDP
124Antigua and Barbuda2.3% of GDP
125Barbados2.3% of GDP
126Mozambique2.2% of GDP
127Philippines2.2% of GDP
128Sao Tome and Principe2.1% of GDP
129Lebanon2.1% of GDP
130Papua New Guinea2.1% of GDP
131Grenada2.1% of GDP
132Qatar2.1% of GDP
133Brunei Darussalam2.1% of GDP
134Gabon2.1% of GDP
135Vietnam2.0% of GDP
136Malaysia2.0% of GDP
137Kenya2.0% of GDP
138Nepal1.9% of GDP
139Tajikistan1.9% of GDP
140Ghana1.9% of GDP
141Micronesia, Federated States of1.8% of GDP
142Guyana1.7% of GDP
143Egypt1.6% of GDP
144Central African Republic1.5% of GDP
145Mauritania1.5% of GDP
146Armenia1.5% of GDP
147Indonesia1.4% of GDP
148Cote d'Ivoire1.4% of GDP
149Azerbaijan1.4% of GDP
150Mali1.3% of GDP
151Burundi1.3% of GDP
152India1.3% of GDP
153Liberia1.3% of GDP
154Republic of The Gambia1.3% of GDP
155Chad1.3% of GDP
156Cambodia1.2% of GDP
157Sri Lanka1.2% of GDP
158Venezuela1.2% of GDP
159Senegal1.2% of GDP
160Angola1.1% of GDP
161Equatorial Guinea1.1% of GDP
162Republic of the Congo1.1% of GDP
163Djibouti1.1% of GDP
164Madagascar1.0% of GDP
165Niger1.0% of GDP
166United Republic of Tanzania1.0% of GDP
167Zimbabwe0.9% of GDP
168Turkmenistan0.9% of GDP
169Guinea-Bissau0.9% of GDP
170Uganda0.9% of GDP
171Pakistan0.9% of GDP
172Eritrea0.8% of GDP
173Comoros0.8% of GDP
174Malawi0.8% of GDP
175Yemen0.8% of GDP
176Guinea0.8% of GDP
177Sierra Leone0.8% of GDP
178Democratic Republic of the Congo0.7% of GDP
179Togo0.7% of GDP
180Cameroon0.7% of GDP
181Ethiopia0.6% of GDP
182Nigeria0.6% of GDP
183Sudan0.6% of GDP
184Somalia0.5% of GDP
185Lao People's Democratic Republic0.5% of GDP
186South Sudan0.5% of GDP
187Myanmar0.5% of GDP
188Benin0.5% of GDP
189Syrian Arab Republic0.4% of GDP
190Bangladesh0.3% of GDP
191Haiti0.3% of GDP
192Afghanistan0.2% of GDP
Showing 192 of 192 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2023).

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