Current health expenditure as % of GDP by nation, 2023.
Current health expenditure is ranked as a share of GDP across nations for 2023. The chart uses ten rows, % of GDP values and the World Bank/WHO health-expenditure indicator. Tuvalu ranked first at 27.1% of GDP, 8.9 percentage points above Nauru. The leader was 2.32 times Switzerland’s tenth-ranked value, while the United States ranked third at 16.7%.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuvalu | 27.1% | 2023 |
| 2 | Nauru | 18.2% | 2023 |
| 3 | United States | 16.7% | 2023 |
| 4 | Afghanistan | 15.0% | 2023 |
| 5 | Marshall Islands | 13.4% | 2023 |
| 6 | Liberia | 13.0% | 2023 |
| 7 | Micronesia | 12.9% | 2023 |
| 8 | Lesotho | 12.6% | 2023 |
| 9 | Germany | 11.7% | 2023 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 11.7% | 2023 |
Source 1: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank Data360 / World Development Indicators
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Provides 2023 current health expenditure shares of GDP by nation.
Current health expenditure includes healthcare goods and services consumed during each year and excludes capital health expenditures under the WDI definition.
Rows were filtered to nation entries and ranked within the 2023 World Bank/WDI indicator slice.
All rows use the same World Bank/WDI indicator, same 2023 period and same % of GDP unit.
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