United States of America - Current health expenditure as a share of GDP

18.8 (%) in 2020

In 2020, health expenditure as a share of GDP for United States of America was 18.8 %. Health expenditure as a share of GDP of United States of America increased from 13.2 % in 2001 to 18.8 % in 2020 growing at an average annual rate of 1.95%.

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What is health expenditure as a share 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.

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