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Australia: Current health expenditure

10.40percent · 2023+18.9% since 2013

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. Annual figures for Australia from 2000 to 2023.

20002023

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202310.399
20229.892
202110.516
202010.703
201910.254
201810.089
201710.109
201610.09
201510.136
20149.828
20138.747
20128.67
20118.534
20108.419
20098.543
20088.247
20078.052
20067.972
20057.965
20048.083
20037.877
20027.872
20017.674
20007.589

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Current health expenditure. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-current-health-expenditure (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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