Data Set

Healthcare Utilization & Expenditure: Health care expenditure (share GDP)

Covered years

1970-2020

Topics

Macroeconomic Indicators, Health

Keywords

Health expenditures Health indicators Health Healthcare Healthcare system Public health

Description

Health spending measures the final consumption of health care goods and services (i.e. current health expenditure) including personal health care (curative care, rehabilitative care, long-term care, ancillary services and medical goods) and collective services (prevention and public health services as well as health administration), but excluding spending on investments. This indicator is presented as the“Government/compulsory” spending and is measured as a share of GDP.

If you use this indicator, please cite as: OECD (2021), Health spending (indicator). doi: 10.1787/8643de7e-en. Data retrieved from the Social Policy Archive for SHARE (SPLASH) (distributor). Retrieved from: www.splash-db.eu on Day/Month/Year.

Please see the Notes and the Metadata for details regarding definition, country-specific remarks, and other relevant information about the indicator.

This data was downloaded on 30.08.2021. Please check the original source for further information on the use of the data and proper citation.

Values

Unit: %

	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Australia	- ¹	2.79	2.77	2.74	3.13	4.21	3.83	3.69	3.69	3.59	3.67	3.58	3.60	3.81	4.31	4.35	4.41	4.28	4.14	4.13	4.29	4.47	4.50	4.50	4.51	4.60	4.66	4.77	4.91 ²	5.11 ²	5.21 ²	5.22 ²	5.42 ²	5.38 ²	5.54 ²	5.47 ²	5.46 ²	5.59 ²	5.70 ²	5.93 ²	5.79 ²	5.91 ²	5.86 ²	5.70 ²	5.85 ²	6.14	6.11 ²	6.15 ²	6.10 ²	6.47 ²	- ¹
Austria	2.94 ¹	2.92	2.91	2.97	3.22	4.41	4.59	4.57	4.73	4.61	4.72	4.47	4.43	4.34	4.34	4.48	4.57	4.78	4.74	4.72	5.74	5.79	6.05	6.47	6.83	6.72	6.66	6.78	6.90 ²	7.04 ²	6.95 ²	6.95 ²	7.03 ²	7.11 ²	7.13 ²	7.12 ²	7.09 ²	7.09 ²	7.29 ²	7.68 ²	7.63 ²	7.48 ²	7.62 ²	7.61 ²	7.67 ²	7.68	7.66 ²	7.69 ²	7.72 ²	7.85 ²	8.78 ¹
Belgium	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.67	5.70	5.50	5.77	6.11	5.79	5.83 ²	5.94 ²	5.97 ²	6.15 ²	6.14 ²	6.80 ²	7.00 ²	6.90 ²	6.81 ²	6.78 ²	7.27 ²	7.88 ²	7.78 ²	7.91 ²	8.05 ²	8.04 ²	8.09 ²	7.92	8.32 ²	8.34 ²	8.27 ²	8.19 ²	- ¹
Canada	4.47 ¹	4.86	4.84	4.61	4.61	5.00	5.09	5.05	5.00	4.87	5.02	5.19	5.78	5.91	5.77	5.73	5.88	5.83	5.80	5.94	6.23	6.75	6.89	6.67	6.34	6.07	5.90	5.80	6.00 ²	5.81 ²	5.77 ²	6.01 ²	6.14 ²	6.30 ²	6.34 ²	6.31 ²	6.49 ²	6.57 ²	6.70 ²	7.52 ²	7.48 ²	7.30 ²	7.40 ²	7.36 ²	7.23 ²	7.58	7.68 ²	7.56 ²	7.58 ²	7.61 ²	- ¹
Chile	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	- ²	- ²	3.75 ²	3.77 ²	3.84 ²	3.83 ²	3.66 ²	3.49 ²	3.27 ²	3.40 ²	3.80 ²	4.61 ²	4.00 ²	4.03 ²	4.21 ²	4.42 ²	4.60 ²	4.88	4.98 ²	5.45 ²	5.52 ²	5.66 ²	5.88 ¹
Colombia	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	- ²	- ²	4.31 ²	4.58 ²	4.50 ²	4.61 ²	4.41 ²	4.50 ²	4.71 ²	4.75 ²	4.91 ²	5.44 ²	5.29 ²	5.15 ²	4.98 ²	5.30 ²	5.47 ²	5.74	5.73 ²	5.88 ²	5.89 ²	5.98 ²	- ¹
Costa Rica	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	- ²	- ²	4.34 ²	4.30 ²	4.65 ²	4.69 ²	4.43 ²	4.32 ²	4.64 ²	4.69 ²	5.12 ²	5.64 ²	5.87 ²	5.92 ²	5.77 ²	5.75 ²	5.59 ²	5.68	5.49 ²	5.28 ²	5.39 ²	5.38 ²	- ¹
Czech Republic	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.60	3.70	3.76	5.00	5.10	5.12	5.01	5.00	5.01 ²	5.19 ²	5.12 ²	5.24 ²	5.56 ²	5.83 ²	5.64 ²	5.51 ²	5.32 ²	5.07 ²	5.20 ²	6.04 ²	5.73 ²	5.81 ²	5.84 ²	6.46 ²	6.28 ²	5.93	5.83 ²	5.86 ²	6.25 ²	6.41 ²	- ¹
Denmark	- ¹	6.42	6.53	6.36	7.05	7.29	7.34	7.14	7.28	7.44	7.34	7.48	7.51	7.26	6.81	6.76	6.50	6.76	6.90	6.75	6.62	6.61	6.59	6.82	6.60	6.37	6.42	6.33	6.12 ²	6.94 ²	6.74 ²	7.05 ²	7.29 ²	7.47 ²	7.53 ²	7.61 ²	7.69 ²	7.81 ²	7.99 ²	9.02 ²	8.67 ²	8.49 ²	8.60 ²	8.57 ²	8.56 ²	8.61	8.53 ²	8.44 ²	8.45 ²	8.29 ²	- ¹
Estonia	- ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	- ²	4.36 ²	3.97 ²	3.74 ²	3.60 ²	3.73 ²	3.84 ²	3.78 ²	3.61 ²	3.78 ²	4.40 ²	5.07 ²	4.79 ²	4.42 ²	4.44 ²	4.52 ²	4.60 ²	4.80	4.87 ²	4.85 ²	4.93 ²	5.01 ²	6.30 ¹
Finland	3.56 ¹	3.76	3.75	3.76	3.76	4.35	4.61	4.79	4.70	4.62	4.61	4.74	4.83	4.84	4.84	5.17	5.30	5.43	5.26	5.33	5.80	6.68	6.73	5.90	5.45	5.24	5.32	5.09	4.91 ²	4.84 ²	5.26 ²	5.41 ²	5.73 ²	5.99 ²	6.13 ²	6.31 ²	6.40 ²	6.24 ²	6.46 ²	7.10 ²	7.05 ²	7.16 ²	7.50 ²	7.64 ²	7.63 ²	7.42	7.15 ²	6.97 ²	6.95 ²	7.13 ²	- ¹
France	3.89 ¹	-	-	-