Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

Dataset SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: World Health Organization, Global Health Expenditure Database
Code: SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://apps.who.int/nha/database

Definition published with the series

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.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Current health expenditure as a share of GDP (WHO)	SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS	% of GDP