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External health financing share

Compare external health financing share across 173 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2023 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators173 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
10.7% of current health expenditure
Median: 2.1% of current health expenditure
Countries Covered
173
with available data
Highest
Micronesia
71.5% of current health expenditure
Lowest
Antigua and Barbuda
0.0% of current health expenditure
Top 5 Countries
1Micronesia71.5% of current health expenditure
2Malawi65.5% of current health expenditure
3South Sudan62.3% of current health expenditure
4Mozambique57.7% of current health expenditure
5Burundi57.4% of current health expenditure
By Region
Key Findings
  • Coverage: 173 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2023.
  • Published range: 0 to 71.4684 % of current health expenditure.
  • Discovery motivation: Google Trends Germany surfaced a skin-infection topic, motivating a health-system financing comparison alongside the care-coverage replacement queue.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0% of current health expenditure)High (71.5% of current health expenditure)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 10.7% of current health expenditure)

About This Statistic

Share of current health expenditures funded from external sources. External sources compose of direct foreign transfers and foreign transfers distributed by government encompassing all financial inflows into the national health system from outside the country. External sources either flow through the government scheme or are channeled through non-governmental organizations or other schemes.

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

Share of current health expenditures funded from external sources. External sources compose of direct foreign transfers and foreign transfers distributed by government encompassing all financial inflows into the national health system from outside the country. External sources either flow through the government scheme or are channeled through non-governmental organizations or other schemes.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Micronesia, Federated States of71.5% of current health expenditure
2Malawi65.5% of current health expenditure
3South Sudan62.3% of current health expenditure
4Mozambique57.7% of current health expenditure
5Burundi57.4% of current health expenditure
6Somalia54.4% of current health expenditure
7Zambia47.9% of current health expenditure
8Zimbabwe45.0% of current health expenditure
9Tonga44.2% of current health expenditure
10Uganda44.1% of current health expenditure
11Sao Tome and Principe43.9% of current health expenditure
12Lesotho40.5% of current health expenditure
13Central African Republic39.9% of current health expenditure
14United Republic of Tanzania39.4% of current health expenditure
15Benin38.4% of current health expenditure
16Madagascar38.1% of current health expenditure
17Rwanda37.0% of current health expenditure
18Democratic Republic of the Congo37.0% of current health expenditure
19Solomon Islands33.9% of current health expenditure
20Vanuatu32.0% of current health expenditure
21Haiti31.6% of current health expenditure
22Sierra Leone28.5% of current health expenditure
23Eritrea28.5% of current health expenditure
24Eswatini28.4% of current health expenditure
25Tuvalu27.1% of current health expenditure
26Ethiopia26.9% of current health expenditure
27Comoros26.8% of current health expenditure
28Guinea-Bissau25.1% of current health expenditure
29Djibouti23.6% of current health expenditure
30Marshall Islands22.9% of current health expenditure
31Chad22.4% of current health expenditure
32Afghanistan21.2% of current health expenditure
33Yemen21.1% of current health expenditure
34Burkina Faso20.9% of current health expenditure
35Kenya20.1% of current health expenditure
36Togo20.0% of current health expenditure
37Mauritania19.5% of current health expenditure
38Palau18.5% of current health expenditure
39Liberia18.3% of current health expenditure
40Papua New Guinea18.2% of current health expenditure
41Guinea18.1% of current health expenditure
42Republic of The Gambia17.4% of current health expenditure
43Senegal16.8% of current health expenditure
44Samoa16.5% of current health expenditure
45Sudan16.3% of current health expenditure
46Lao People's Democratic Republic15.4% of current health expenditure
47Timor-Leste15.3% of current health expenditure
48Republic of the Congo14.9% of current health expenditure
49Cameroon14.7% of current health expenditure
50Niger14.6% of current health expenditure
51Nauru13.4% of current health expenditure
52Tajikistan11.9% of current health expenditure
53Cote d'Ivoire11.8% of current health expenditure
54Syrian Arab Republic11.8% of current health expenditure
55Fiji11.6% of current health expenditure
56Namibia11.4% of current health expenditure
57Nigeria11.3% of current health expenditure
58Cambodia11.3% of current health expenditure
59Cape Verde11.0% of current health expenditure
60Lebanon10.2% of current health expenditure
61Honduras10.1% of current health expenditure
62Pakistan9.7% of current health expenditure
63Kiribati9.2% of current health expenditure
64Ghana8.5% of current health expenditure
65Angola7.2% of current health expenditure
66Nepal6.9% of current health expenditure
67Jordan6.9% of current health expenditure
68Botswana6.5% of current health expenditure
69Bhutan6.4% of current health expenditure
70Myanmar6.1% of current health expenditure
71Sri Lanka6.0% of current health expenditure
72Mali6.0% of current health expenditure
73Suriname5.2% of current health expenditure
74Saint Lucia5.0% of current health expenditure
75Gabon4.4% of current health expenditure
76Kyrgyzstan4.4% of current health expenditure
77Mongolia3.8% of current health expenditure
78Bangladesh3.5% of current health expenditure
79Egypt3.5% of current health expenditure
80Nicaragua3.4% of current health expenditure
81Tunisia3.1% of current health expenditure
82Guatemala3.0% of current health expenditure
83Dominica2.7% of current health expenditure
84Grenada2.7% of current health expenditure
85Jamaica2.6% of current health expenditure
86India2.4% of current health expenditure
87Moldova, Republic of2.1% of current health expenditure
88South Africa2.1% of current health expenditure
89Mauritius2.0% of current health expenditure
90Belize1.6% of current health expenditure
91Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.6% of current health expenditure
92Maldives1.5% of current health expenditure
93Israel1.4% of current health expenditure
94Bosnia and Herzegovina1.3% of current health expenditure
95Guyana1.2% of current health expenditure
96Bolivia1.2% of current health expenditure
97Luxembourg1.2% of current health expenditure
98Vietnam1.1% of current health expenditure
99Equatorial Guinea1.0% of current health expenditure
100El Salvador0.9% of current health expenditure
101Barbados0.9% of current health expenditure
102Albania0.9% of current health expenditure
103Dominican Republic0.9% of current health expenditure
104Georgia0.8% of current health expenditure
105Argentina0.8% of current health expenditure
106Panama0.8% of current health expenditure
107Islamic Republic of Iran0.7% of current health expenditure
108Libya0.7% of current health expenditure
109Morocco0.6% of current health expenditure
110Indonesia0.6% of current health expenditure
111Venezuela0.5% of current health expenditure
112Bulgaria0.5% of current health expenditure
113Bahamas0.5% of current health expenditure
114Azerbaijan0.4% of current health expenditure
115Armenia0.4% of current health expenditure
116Cyprus0.4% of current health expenditure
117Lithuania0.3% of current health expenditure
118Turkmenistan0.3% of current health expenditure
119Greece0.3% of current health expenditure
120Ecuador0.3% of current health expenditure
121Kazakhstan0.2% of current health expenditure
122Latvia0.1% of current health expenditure
123Montenegro0.1% of current health expenditure
124Uzbekistan0.1% of current health expenditure
125Thailand0.1% of current health expenditure
126Philippines0.1% of current health expenditure
127Croatia0.1% of current health expenditure
128Belarus0.1% of current health expenditure
129Trinidad and Tobago0.1% of current health expenditure
130Portugal0.1% of current health expenditure
131Poland0.1% of current health expenditure
132Slovenia0.0% of current health expenditure
133Algeria0.0% of current health expenditure
134Paraguay0.0% of current health expenditure
135Cuba0.0% of current health expenditure
136Brazil0.0% of current health expenditure
137Colombia0.0% of current health expenditure
138Belgium0.0% of current health expenditure
139Costa Rica0.0% of current health expenditure
140Netherlands0.0% of current health expenditure
141Estonia0.0% of current health expenditure
142United Kingdom0.0% of current health expenditure
143People's Republic of China0.0% of current health expenditure
144Malaysia0.0% of current health expenditure
145Serbia0.0% of current health expenditure
146Canada0.0% of current health expenditure
147Chile0.0% of current health expenditure
148Hungary0.0% of current health expenditure
149Iceland0.0% of current health expenditure
150Ireland0.0% of current health expenditure
151Italy0.0% of current health expenditure
152Japan0.0% of current health expenditure
153South Korea0.0% of current health expenditure
154Kuwait0.0% of current health expenditure
155Malta0.0% of current health expenditure
156Mexico0.0% of current health expenditure
157Oman0.0% of current health expenditure
158Norway0.0% of current health expenditure
159Qatar0.0% of current health expenditure
160Romania0.0% of current health expenditure
161Saint Kitts and Nevis0.0% of current health expenditure
162Saudi Arabia0.0% of current health expenditure
163Seychelles0.0% of current health expenditure
164Singapore0.0% of current health expenditure
165Switzerland0.0% of current health expenditure
166United Arab Emirates0.0% of current health expenditure
167United States of America0.0% of current health expenditure
168Uruguay0.0% of current health expenditure
169Antigua and Barbuda0.0% of current health expenditure
170Australia0.0% of current health expenditure
171Austria0.0% of current health expenditure
172Bahrain0.0% of current health expenditure
173Brunei Darussalam0.0% of current health expenditure
Showing 173 of 173 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2023).

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