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Government expenditures on mental hospitals as a percentage of total government expenditures on mental health
Government expenditures on mental hospitals as a percentage of total government expenditures on mental health (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator MH_5.
- Coverage
- 78 of 251 countries
- Latest data
- 2017
- Series
- 78
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- who-mh-5
- Interva ID
- who-mh-5
Recency
stale
data to 2017; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
0%Latest observation is 2017; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 8 year(s) behind (stale).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%0 of 78 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 78 of the 251 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2013.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.
By country
Government expenditures on mental hospitals as a percentage of total government expenditures on mental health for each of the 78 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Antigua and Barbuda 2016–2016
- Armenia 2016–2016
- Australia 2015–2015
- Azerbaijan 2016–2016
- Bahrain 2017–2017
- Bangladesh 2016–2016
- Barbados 2015–2015
- Belarus 2016–2016
- Bhutan 2016–2016
- Brazil 2016–2016
- Bulgaria 2016–2016
- Burundi 2017–2017
- Cambodia 2016–2016
- Chile 2016–2016
- Cook Islands 2016–2016
- Costa Rica 2016–2016
- Croatia 2016–2016
- Czechia 2015–2015
- Dominican Republic 2016–2016
- Ecuador 2016–2016
- Egypt 2016–2016
- Estonia 2016–2016
- Fiji 2016–2016
- Finland 2017–2017
- France 2017–2017
- Georgia 2016–2016
- Germany 2015–2015
- Ghana 2016–2016
- Guyana 2016–2016
- Haiti 2016–2016
- Honduras 2014–2014
- Iceland 2016–2016
- India 2016–2016
- Indonesia 2016–2016
- Ireland 2016–2016
- Israel 2016–2016
- Italy 2015–2015
- Jamaica 2015–2015
- Kenya 2016–2016
- Kiribati 2015–2015
- Korea, Republic of 2016–2016
- Kyrgyzstan 2016–2016
- Latvia 2015–2015
- Lebanon 2015–2015
- Liberia 2016–2016
- Malaysia 2016–2016
- Mauritania 2013–2013
- Moldova, Republic of 2015–2015
- Myanmar 2016–2016
- Nauru 2016–2016
- Netherlands 2015–2015
- New Zealand 2016–2016
- Pakistan 2016–2016
- Paraguay 2016–2016
- Peru 2016–2016
- Philippines 2016–2016
- Poland 2016–2016
- Qatar 2016–2016
- Rwanda 2016–2016
- Saint Lucia 2016–2016
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2017–2017
- Samoa 2016–2016
- Sao Tome and Principe 2016–2016
- Saudi Arabia 2016–2016
- Serbia 2017–2017
- Singapore 2016–2016
- Slovenia 2016–2016
- South Africa 2016–2016
- Switzerland 2015–2015
- Syrian Arab Republic 2016–2016
- Tajikistan 2016–2016
- Tanzania, United Republic of 2015–2015
- Thailand 2016–2016
- Tonga 2016–2016
- United Kingdom 2017–2017
- Uzbekistan 2016–2016
- Vanuatu 2016–2016
- Zimbabwe 2016–2016
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 2017 | 3.20 | percent |
| Burundi | 2017 | 0.20 | percent |
| Finland | 2017 | 5.60 | percent |
| France | 2017 | 15 | percent |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2017 | 10 | percent |
| Serbia | 2017 | 6.60 | percent |
| United Kingdom | 2017 | 9.70 | percent |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2016 | 8 | percent |
| Armenia | 2016 | 19.50 | percent |
| Azerbaijan | 2016 | 3.50 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Health Organization declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
World Health Organization
Global Health Observatory — MH_5
declared by who in IndicatorCode
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Health Organization (2026). Government expenditures on mental hospitals as a percentage of total government expenditures on mental health. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-mh-5 (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-who-mh-5,
title = {Government expenditures on mental hospitals as a percentage of total government expenditures on mental health},
author = {World Health Organization},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/who-mh-5}},
note = {Interva dataset who-mh-5; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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