Current health expenditure

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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
193
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Health Organization

    Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://apps.who.int/nha/database

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Austria202411.83percent
Canada202411.31percent
Chile202410.53percent
Colombia20248.14percent
Czechia20248.51percent
Denmark20249.39percent
Estonia20247.84percent
France202411.54percent
Germany202412.27percent
Iceland20248.98percent

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