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Health expenditure

Health as % of GDP. Poland 5→8%; US ~17% — not the same as longer lives.

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Health

The file

Current health spending as % of GDP, from 2000. Shorter than the mortality files.

The indicator

SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS is a share of GDP, not quality and not dollars per person. Rising GDP per capita means the same percent is more money.

What the numbers show

Poland 5.3% → 8.1%; Germany ~12%; US ~17%. More GDP on health does not guarantee longer lives — compare Life expectancy at birth and Infant mortality.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Health expenditure”. World Bank Open Data (SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS), 2000–2024, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/health-expenditure/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
United States202316.7
Germany202412.3
France202411.5
Sweden202411.2
United Kingdom202411.1
Japan202310.7
World202310.1
Netherlands202410.0
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Brazil20239.7
Spain20239.2
Czechia20248.5
Italy20248.4
Poland20248.1
China20235.9
India20233.3

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