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Field Listing :: Health expenditures

This entry provides the total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP. Health expenditures are broadly defined as activities performed either by institutions or individuals through the application of medical, paramedical, and/or nursing knowledge and technology, the primary purpose of which is to promote, restore, or maintain health.
Country Comparison to the World

Country	Health expenditures(% of GDP)


Afghanistan	7.6% of GDP (2010)


Albania	6.6% of GDP (2010)


Algeria	4.2% of GDP (2010)


Andorra	7.5% of GDP (2010)


Angola	2.9% of GDP (2010)


Antigua and Barbuda	6% of GDP (2010)


Argentina	8.1% of GDP (2010)


Armenia	4.4% of GDP (2010)


Australia	8.7% of GDP (2010)


Austria	11% of GDP (2010)


Azerbaijan	5.9% of GDP (2010)


Bahamas, The	7.9% of GDP (2010)


Bahrain	5% of GDP (2010)


Bangladesh	3.5% of GDP (2010)


Barbados	8% of GDP (2010)


Belarus	5.6% of GDP (2010)


Belgium	10.7% of GDP (2010)


Belize	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Benin	4.1% of GDP (2010)


Bhutan	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Bolivia	4.8% of GDP (2010)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.1% of GDP (2010)


Botswana	8.3% of GDP (2010)


Brazil	9% of GDP (2010)


Brunei	2.8% of GDP (2010)


Bulgaria	6.9% of GDP (2010)


Burkina Faso	6.7% of GDP (2010)


Burma	2% of GDP (2010)


Burundi	11.6% of GDP (2010)


Cambodia	5.6% of GDP (2010)


Cameroon	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Canada	11.3% of GDP (2010)


Cape Verde	4.1% of GDP (2010)


Central African Republic	4% of GDP (2010)


Chad	4.5% of GDP (2010)


Chile	8% of GDP (2010)


China	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Colombia	7.6% of GDP (2010)


Comoros	4.5% of GDP (2010)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	7.9% of GDP (2010)


Congo, Republic of the	2.5% of GDP (2010)


Cook Islands	4.4% of GDP (2010)


Costa Rica	10.9% of GDP (2010)


Cote d'Ivoire	5.3% of GDP (2010)


Croatia	7.8% of GDP (2010)


Cuba	10.6% of GDP (2010)


Cyprus	6% of GDP (2010)


Czech Republic	7.9% of GDP (2010)


Denmark	11.4% of GDP (2010)


Djibouti	7.2% of GDP (2010)


Dominica	7.4% of GDP (2010)


Dominican Republic	6.2% of GDP (2010)


Ecuador	8.1% of GDP (2010)


Egypt	4.7% of GDP (2010)


El Salvador	6.9% of GDP (2010)


Equatorial Guinea	4.5% of GDP (2010)


Eritrea	2.7% of GDP (2010)


Estonia	6% of GDP (2010)


Ethiopia	4.9% of GDP (2010)


Fiji	4.9% of GDP (2010)


Finland	9% of GDP (2010)


France	11.9% of GDP (2010)


Gabon	3.5% of GDP (2010)


Gambia, The	5.7% of GDP (2010)


Georgia	10.1% of GDP (2010)


Germany	11.6% of GDP (2010)


Ghana	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Greece	10.3% of GDP (2010)


Grenada	5.9% of GDP (2010)


Guatemala	6.9% of GDP (2010)


Guinea	4.9% of GDP (2010)


Guinea-Bissau	8.5% of GDP (2010)


Guyana	5.4% of GDP (2010)


Haiti	6.9% of GDP (2010)


Honduras	6.8% of GDP (2010)


Hungary	7.3% of GDP (2010)


Iceland	9.4% of GDP (2010)


India	4.1% of GDP (2010)


Indonesia	2.6% of GDP (2010)


Iran	5.6% of GDP (2010)


Iraq	8.4% of GDP (2010)


Ireland	9.2% of GDP (2010)


Israel	7.6% of GDP (2010)


Italy	9.5% of GDP (2010)


Jamaica	4.8% of GDP (2010)


Japan	9.5% of GDP (2010)


Jordan	8% of GDP (2010)


Kazakhstan	4.3% of GDP (2010)


Kenya	4.8% of GDP (2010)


Kiribati	11.3% of GDP (2010)


Korea, North	2% of GDP (2009)


Korea, South	6.9% of GDP (2010)


Kuwait	2.6% of GDP (2010)


Kyrgyzstan	6.2% of GDP (2010)


Laos	4.5% of GDP (2010)


Latvia	6.7% of GDP (2010)


Lebanon	7% of GDP (2010)


Lesotho	11.1% of GDP (2010)


Liberia	11.9% of GDP (2010)


Libya	3.9% of GDP (2010)


Lithuania	7% of GDP (2010)


Luxembourg	7.8% of GDP (2010)


Macedonia	7.1% of GDP (2010)


Madagascar	3.8% of GDP (2010)


Malawi	6.6% of GDP (2010)


Malaysia	4.4% of GDP (2010)


Maldives	6.3% of GDP (2010)


Mali	5% of GDP (2010)


Malta	8.7% of GDP (2010)


Marshall Islands	18.1% of GDP (2010)


Mauritania	4.4% of GDP (2010)


Mauritius	6% of GDP (2010)


Mexico	6.3% of GDP (2010)


Micronesia, Federated States of	14.2% of GDP (2010)


Moldova	11.7% of GDP (2010)


Monaco	4.3% of GDP (2010)


Mongolia	5.4% of GDP (2010)


Montenegro	9.1% of GDP (2010)


Morocco	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Mozambique	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Namibia	6.8% of GDP (2010)


Nauru	11.2% of GDP (2010)


Nepal	5.5% of GDP (2010)


Netherlands	11.9% of GDP (2010)


New Zealand	10.1% of GDP (2010)


Nicaragua	9.1% of GDP (2010)


Niger	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Nigeria	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Niue	17.4% of GDP (2010)


Norway	9.5% of GDP (2010)


Oman	2.8% of GDP (2010)


Pakistan	2.2% of GDP (2010)


Palau	10.3% of GDP (2010)


Panama	8.1% of GDP (2010)


Papua New Guinea	3.6% of GDP (2010)


Paraguay	5.9% of GDP (2010)


Peru	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Philippines	3.6% of GDP (2010)


Poland	7.5% of GDP (2010)


Portugal	11% of GDP (2010)


Qatar	1.8% of GDP (2010)


Romania	5.6% of GDP (2010)


Russia	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Rwanda	10.5% of GDP (2010)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	6.7% of GDP (2010)


Saint Lucia	8.7% of GDP (2010)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4.5% of GDP (2010)


Samoa	6.5% of GDP (2010)


San Marino	7.1% of GDP (2010)


Sao Tome and Principe	7.2% of GDP (2010)


Saudi Arabia	4.3% of GDP (2010)


Senegal	5.7% of GDP (2010)


Serbia	10.4% of GDP (2010)


Seychelles	3.4% of GDP (2010)


Sierra Leone	13.1% of GDP (2010)


Singapore	4% of GDP (2010)


Slovakia	8.8% of GDP (2010)


Slovenia	9.4% of GDP (2010)


Solomon Islands	8.6% of GDP (2010)


South Africa	8.9% of GDP (2010)


Spain	9.5% of GDP (2010)


Sri Lanka	3% of GDP (2010)


Sudan	6.3% of GDP (2010)


Suriname	7% of GDP (2010)


Swaziland	6.6% of GDP (2010)


Sweden	9.6% of GDP (2010)


Switzerland	11.5% of GDP (2010)


Syria	3.4% of GDP (2010)


Tajikistan	6% of GDP (2010)


Tanzania	6% of GDP (2010)


Thailand	3.9% of GDP (2010)


Timor-Leste	9.1% of GDP (2010)


Togo	7.7% of GDP (2010)


Tonga	5.1% of GDP (2010)


Trinidad and Tobago	5.7% of GDP (2010)


Tunisia	6.2% of GDP (2010)


Turkey	6.7% of GDP (2010)


Turkmenistan	2.5% of GDP (2010)


Tuvalu	17.5% of GDP (2010)


Uganda	9% of GDP (2010)


Ukraine	7.7% of GDP (2010)


United Arab Emirates	3.7% of GDP (2010)


United Kingdom	9.6% of GDP (2010)


United States	17.9% of GDP (2010)


Uruguay	8.4% of GDP (2010)


Uzbekistan	5.3% of GDP (2010)


Vanuatu	5.3% of GDP (2010)


Venezuela	4.9% of GDP (2010)


Vietnam	6.8% of GDP (2010)


Yemen	5.2% of GDP (2010)


Zambia	5.9% of GDP (2010)

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