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Portugal
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

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.

Global rank#8out of 22 countries
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Historical trend

11.210.69.99.38.6200020122024Portugal · 2024: 10.24%Portugal

Analytical takeaways

  • Portugal records 10.24% for Current health expenditure (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #8 globally out of 22 countries.
  • Current health expenditure (% of GDP) increased from 8.60% in 2000 to 10.24% in 2024, a gain of 1.64%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

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