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Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

For 2024, Current health expenditure (% of GDP) is led by Germany at 12.27%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 22
Snapshot year 2024
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0.03.16.19.212.3GermanyGermany: 12.27%12.3AustriaAustria: 11.83%11.8FranceFrance: 11.54%11.5CanadaCanada: 11.31%11.3SwedenSweden: 11.22%11.2United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 11.13%11.1ChileChile: 10.53%10.5PortugalPortugal: 10.24%10.2New ZealandNew Zealand: 10.06%10.1NetherlandsNetherlands: 10.01%10.0SloveniaSlovenia: 9.88%9.9DenmarkDenmark: 9.39%9.4
Rank Country Value
1 Germany 12.27%
2 Austria 11.83%
3 France 11.54%
4 Canada 11.31%
5 Sweden 11.22%
6 United Kingdom 11.13%
7 Chile 10.53%
8 Portugal 10.24%
9 New Zealand 10.06%
10 Netherlands 10.01%
11 Slovenia 9.88%
12 Denmark 9.39%
13 Iceland 8.98%
14 Korea, Rep. 8.68%
15 Czechia 8.51%
16 Italy 8.44%
17 Colombia 8.14%
18 Poland 8.06%
19 Estonia 7.84%
20 Lithuania 7.60%
21 Ireland 6.85%
22 Luxembourg 5.89%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Germany sits at the top of the Current health expenditure (% of GDP) distribution in 2024 at 12.27%, with a lead of 0.43% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Slovenia at 9.88%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Luxembourg (5.89%), and the page currently covers 22 countries.