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South Sudan
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#11out of 192 countries
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Historical trend

22.118.214.210.36.3201720202023South Sudan · 2023: 11.61%South Sudan

Analytical takeaways

  • South Sudan records 11.61% for Current health expenditure (% of GDP) in 2023, ranking #11 globally out of 192 countries.
  • Current health expenditure (% of GDP) declined from 22.11% in 2017 to 11.61% in 2023, a decrease of 10.50%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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