Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)

Dataset SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.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.OOPC.CH.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: http://apps.who.int/nha/database

Definition published with the series

Share of out-of-pocket payments of total current health expenditures. Out-of-pocket payments are spending on health directly out-of-pocket by households.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Out-of-pocket health spending	SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS	% of current health expenditure