Health Expenditure as a Share of GDP by Country
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Health Expenditure as a Share of GDP by CountryThe United States spends a far larger share of its economy on health than any other country here, rising from 12.5 percent of GDP in 2000 to 16.7 percent in 2023 and peaking at 17.4 percent in 2021. All six high-income countries here - the United States, Germany, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and Canada - recorded their highest figure of the series in 2021 and a lower one in 2023, as economies recovered and pandemic spending fell away. South Korea shows the steepest long-run climb, from 3.7 to 8.6 percent, more than doubling its share. India is the lowest in every year from 2005 onwards and is the only country here spending a smaller share in 2023 than in 2000, at 3.3 against 4.1 percent.
Data Insights
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank Open Data
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2000–2023 (7 years) · 84 observations
- Measure
- Health Expenditure (% of GDP)
- Last updated
- 22 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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