Afghanistan is the top country by health expenditure as a share of GDP in the world. As of 2021, health expenditure as a share of GDP in Afghanistan was 16.8 %. The top 5 countries also includes Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.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.