Current health expenditure as a share of GDP

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The United States of America is the top country by health expenditure as a share of GDP in the world. As of 2022, health expenditure as a share of GDP in the United States of America was 16.6 %. The top 5 countries also includes Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Sweden.

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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.