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United States
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#3out of 192 countries
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Historical trend

18.517.015.514.012.5200020122023United States · 2023: 16.69%United States

Analytical takeaways

  • United States records 16.69% for Current health expenditure (% of GDP) in 2023, ranking #3 globally out of 192 countries.
  • Current health expenditure (% of GDP) increased from 12.49% in 2000 to 16.69% in 2023, a gain of 4.20%.
  • 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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