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Health spending share of GDP by country — world rankings

Ranking 165 countries with data.

Health spending share of GDP

Rank Country Value
1 United States 16.7% (2023)
2 Afghanistan 15.0% (2023)
3 Liberia 13.0% (2023)
4 Lesotho 12.6% (2023)
5 Germany 12.3% (2024)
6 Austria 11.8% (2024)
7 Switzerland 11.7% (2023)
8 S. Sudan 11.6% (2023)
9 France 11.5% (2024)
10 Canada 11.3% (2024)
11 Sweden 11.2% (2024)
12 United Kingdom 11.1% (2024)
13 Belgium 10.8% (2023)
14 Japan 10.7% (2023)
15 Palestine 10.7% (2023)
16 Central African Rep. 10.7% (2023)
17 Chile 10.5% (2024)
18 Finland 10.5% (2023)
19 Australia 10.4% (2023)
20 Argentina 10.3% (2023)
21 Portugal 10.2% (2024)
22 New Zealand 10.1% (2024)
23 Netherlands 10.0% (2024)
24 Slovenia 9.9% (2024)
25 Brazil 9.7% (2023)
26 Yemen 9.7% (2023)
27 Montenegro 9.7% (2023)
28 Timor-Leste 9.6% (2023)
29 Namibia 9.5% (2023)
30 Norway 9.4% (2023)
31 Denmark 9.4% (2024)
32 Cuba 9.4% (2023)
33 Armenia 9.3% (2023)
34 El Salvador 9.3% (2023)
35 Spain 9.2% (2023)
36 Burundi 9.1% (2023)
37 Uruguay 9.0% (2023)
38 Iceland 9.0% (2024)
39 Bosnia and Herz. 8.9% (2023)
40 South Africa 8.9% (2023)
41 Guinea-Bissau 8.8% (2023)
42 South Korea 8.7% (2024)
43 Czechia 8.5% (2024)
44 Mozambique 8.5% (2023)
45 Italy 8.4% (2024)
46 Greece 8.4% (2023)
47 Paraguay 8.4% (2023)
48 Panama 8.3% (2023)
49 Nicaragua 8.3% (2023)
50 Ukraine 8.2% (2021)
51 Colombia 8.1% (2024)
52 Cyprus 8.1% (2023)
53 Poland 8.1% (2024)
54 Serbia 8.0% (2023)
55 Tunisia 8.0% (2023)
56 Bulgaria 7.9% (2023)
57 Estonia 7.8% (2024)
58 Libya 7.8% (2023)
59 Burkina Faso 7.8% (2023)
60 Honduras 7.7% (2023)
61 Jordan 7.7% (2023)
62 Jamaica 7.6% (2023)
63 Lithuania 7.6% (2024)
64 Ecuador 7.6% (2023)
65 Trinidad and Tobago 7.5% (2023)
66 eSwatini 7.5% (2023)
67 Tajikistan 7.4% (2023)
68 Macedonia 7.4% (2023)
69 Slovakia 7.4% (2023)
70 Latvia 7.3% (2023)
71 Croatia 7.1% (2023)
72 Israel 7.1% (2023)
73 Belarus 7.1% (2023)
74 Albania 7.1% (2023)
75 Russia 7.0% (2023)
76 Bolivia 6.9% (2023)
77 Costa Rica 6.9% (2023)
78 Georgia 6.9% (2023)
79 Ireland 6.9% (2024)
80 Guatemala 6.8% (2023)
81 Uzbekistan 6.7% (2023)
82 Moldova 6.7% (2023)
83 Malawi 6.5% (2023)
84 Hungary 6.4% (2023)
85 Bahamas 6.3% (2023)
86 Botswana 6.3% (2023)
87 Nepal 6.2% (2023)
88 Togo 6.1% (2023)
89 Mongolia 6.1% (2023)
90 Morocco 6.1% (2023)
91 Iran 6.0% (2023)
92 Zambia 6.0% (2023)
93 China 5.9% (2023)
94 Luxembourg 5.9% (2024)
95 Romania 5.7% (2023)
96 Saudi Arabia 5.7% (2023)
97 Peru 5.6% (2023)
98 Lebanon 5.6% (2023)
99 Iraq 5.5% (2023)
100 Mexico 5.5% (2023)
101 Turkmenistan 5.5% (2023)
102 Suriname 5.4% (2023)
103 Solomon Is. 5.4% (2023)
104 Rwanda 5.1% (2023)
105 Philippines 5.1% (2023)
106 Chad 5.0% (2023)
107 United Arab Emirates 5.0% (2023)
108 Kuwait 5.0% (2023)
109 Egypt 4.9% (2023)
110 Sierra Leone 4.7% (2023)
111 Cambodia 4.6% (2023)
112 Dominican Rep. 4.6% (2023)
113 Vietnam 4.6% (2023)
114 Cameroon 4.6% (2023)
115 Thailand 4.5% (2023)
116 Kyrgyzstan 4.5% (2023)
117 Myanmar 4.5% (2023)
118 Bhutan 4.4% (2023)
119 Kenya 4.4% (2023)
120 Algeria 4.4% (2023)
121 Mauritania 4.3% (2023)
122 Senegal 4.3% (2023)
123 Turkey 4.3% (2023)
124 Azerbaijan 4.3% (2023)
125 Uganda 4.2% (2023)
126 Nigeria 4.2% (2023)
127 Belize 4.1% (2023)
128 Vanuatu 4.1% (2023)
129 Niger 4.0% (2023)
130 Malaysia 4.0% (2023)
131 Mali 3.8% (2023)
132 Venezuela 3.8% (2023)
133 Kazakhstan 3.8% (2023)
134 Somalia 3.7% (2023)
135 Guinea 3.7% (2023)
136 Dem. Rep. Congo 3.7% (2023)
137 Eritrea 3.7% (2023)
138 Sri Lanka 3.7% (2023)
139 Fiji 3.6% (2023)
140 Eq. Guinea 3.5% (2023)
141 Oman 3.5% (2023)
142 Côte d'Ivoire 3.4% (2023)
143 Madagascar 3.4% (2023)
144 India 3.3% (2023)
145 Benin 3.3% (2023)
146 Congo 3.3% (2023)
147 Haiti 3.2% (2023)
148 Gabon 3.1% (2023)
149 Tanzania 3.1% (2023)
150 Ghana 2.9% (2023)
151 Zimbabwe 2.9% (2023)
152 Gambia 2.9% (2023)
153 Papua New Guinea 2.9% (2023)
154 Sudan 2.9% (2023)
155 Ethiopia 2.8% (2023)
156 Syria 2.7% (2023)
157 Indonesia 2.7% (2023)
158 Angola 2.5% (2023)
159 Qatar 2.5% (2023)
160 Pakistan 2.5% (2023)
161 Guyana 2.5% (2023)
162 Djibouti 2.3% (2023)
163 Brunei 2.2% (2023)
164 Bangladesh 2.2% (2023)
165 Laos 1.3% (2023)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 165 countries with data is 6.5% — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).