Health expenditure as a share of GDP (Eurostat)
Current spending on health care from all financing schemes (government, compulsory insurance, voluntary insurance and households' out-of-pocket payments) as a percentage of GDP, under the System of Health Accounts.
32 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
Trend over time
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% of GDP. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 12.7%p (provisional) | 11.5%p (provisional) | – |
| 2024 | 10.2% | 12.2% | 11.3% | 9.3% |
| 2023 | 9.9% | 11.6% | 11.3% | 9.2% |
| 2022 | 10.3% | 12.3% | 11.7% | 9.7% |
| 2021 | 10.8% | 12.7% | 12.1% | 10.3% |
| 2020 | 10.8% | 12.5% | 11.9% | 10.8% |
| 2019 | 9.8% | 11.4% | 11.0% | 9.2% |
| 2018 | 9.8% | 11.2% | 11.1% | 9.1% |
| 2017 | 9.8% | 11.0% | 11.3% | 9.0% |
| 2016 | 9.9% | 11.0% | 11.4% | 9.0% |
| 2015 | 9.9% | 10.9% | 11.3% | 9.2% |
| 2014 | 9.9% | 10.8% | 11.3% | 9.2% |
| 2013 | – | 10.8% | 11.3% | 9.1% |
| 2012 | – | 10.6% | 11.1% | 9.2% |
| 2011 | – | 10.5% | 11.0% | 9.2% |
| 2010 | – | 10.8% | 11.0%b (break in time series) | 9.2% |
| 2009 | – | 11.0% | 11.3% | 9.2% |
| 2008 | – | 10.0% | 10.5% | 8.4% |
| 2007 | – | 9.8% | 10.3% | 8.0% |
| 2006 | – | 10.0% | 10.4% | 7.9% |
| 2005 | – | 10.1% | – | 7.8% |
| 2004 | – | 10.0% | – | 7.7% |
| 2003 | – | 10.2% | – | 7.6% |
| 2002 | – | 10.0% | – | – |
| 2001 | – | 9.8% | – | – |
Flags: p provisional; b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 32 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Germany (12.2%) and the lowest Liechtenstein (5.3%).
- Half of the countries are above 8.6% and half below.
- From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 12 countries and fell in 3.
- The figure for the European Union was 10.2% in 2024, against 9.8% in 2019 (+0.3 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Germany 12.2%
- 2 Austria 11.7%
- 3 Switzerland 11.4%p (provisional)
- 4 France 11.3%
- 5 Sweden 11.2%
- 6 Belgium 11.1%
- 7 Finland 10.6%p (provisional)
- 8 Portugal 10.2%
- 9 Netherlands 10.1%
- 10 Denmark 9.6%
- 11 Slovenia 9.3%
- 12 Spain 9.3%
- 13 Iceland 9.2%
- 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.0%
- 15 Malta 8.7%p (provisional)
- 16 Czechia 8.7%
- 17 Bulgaria 8.5%
- 18 Italy 8.5%
- 19 Greece 8.4%
- 20 Latvia 8.4%
- 21 Cyprus 8.0%
- 22 Slovakia 8.0%
- 23 Estonia 8.0%
- 24 Poland 7.8%
- 25 Lithuania 7.6%
- 26 Croatia 7.6%
- 27 Moldova 7.3%
- 28 Hungary 6.5%
- 29 Ireland 6.5%
- 30 Romania 6.2%
- 31 Luxembourg 5.7%
- 32 Liechtenstein 5.3%
- European Union 10.2%
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Grey: no value for 2024. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.