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Sao Tome and Principe
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#108out of 192 countries
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Historical trend

11.510.08.57.05.5200020122023Sao Tome and Principe · 2023: 5.77%Sao Tome and Principe

Analytical takeaways

  • Sao Tome and Principe records 5.77% for Current health expenditure (% of GDP) in 2023, ranking #108 globally out of 192 countries.
  • Current health expenditure (% of GDP) declined from 9.32% in 2000 to 5.77% in 2023, a decrease of 3.55%.
  • 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.

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