# Countries by government health spending, share of government spending, 2023

All 194 values come from World Health Organization for 2023, so the places are comparable. 1 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `government_health_expenditure_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Domestic general government health expenditure (GGHE-D) as a percentage of general government expenditure (SDG indicator 1.a.2): transfers from government domestic revenue allocated to health plus social health insurance contributions, divided by total general government spending. WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, System of Health Accounts 2011.
- Source: World Health Organization, Domestic general government health expenditure (GGHE-D) as percentage of general government expenditure (GGE) (%) (GHED_GGHE-DGGE_SHA2011) (https://data.who.int/indicators/i/8C8FB8F/B9C6C79)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: World Health Organization, data.who.int. Domestic general government health expenditure (GGHE-D) as percentage of general government expenditure (GGE) (%) (GHED_GGHE-DGGE_SHA2011) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/8C8FB8F/B9C6C79 (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/government-health-spending-share/countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | San Marino | 26.2 |
| 2 | Costa Rica | 24.91 |
| 3 | Japan | 23.3 |
| 4 | United States | 23.02 |
| 5 | Ireland | 22.16 |
| 6 | Paraguay | 21.57 |
| 7 | Uruguay | 21.38 |
| 8 | Australia | 21.01 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 20.05 |
| 10 | Cuba | 19.98 |
| 11 | Panama | 19.85 |
| 12 | Sweden | 19.45 |
| 13 | New Zealand | 19.21 |
| 14 | Germany | 19.21 |
| 15 | Chile | 19.17 |
| 16 | Iran | 19.06 |
| 17 | Canada | 18.68 |
| 18 | El Salvador | 18.51 |
| 19 | Nicaragua | 18.29 |
| 20 | Guatemala | 17.75 |
| 21 | Tuvalu | 17.49 |
| 22 | Singapore | 17.39 |
| 23 | Norway | 17.37 |
| 24 | Denmark | 16.92 |
| 25 | South Africa | 16.89 |
| 26 | Montenegro | 16.6 |
| 27 | Argentina | 16.35 |
| 28 | Austria | 16.19 |
| 29 | Colombia | 16.19 |
| 30 | Czechia | 16.18 |
| 31 | Iceland | 16.06 |
| 32 | Peru | 15.95 |
| 33 | Lebanon | 15.91 |
| 34 | Malta | 15.91 |
| 35 | Jamaica | 15.86 |
| 36 | Liechtenstein | 15.85 |
| 37 | South Korea | 15.62 |
| 38 | Maldives | 15.57 |
| 39 | Netherlands | 15.56 |
| 40 | Thailand | 15.56 |
| 41 | Dominican Republic | 15.41 |
| 42 | Marshall Islands | 15.24 |
| 43 | Andorra | 15.19 |
| 44 | Finland | 15.19 |
| 45 | Namibia | 14.99 |
| 46 | Belgium | 14.93 |
| 47 | Cyprus | 14.86 |
| 48 | Spain | 14.85 |
| 49 | Samoa | 14.63 |
| 50 | Slovenia | 14.63 |
| 51 | Botswana | 14.61 |
| 52 | Portugal | 14.56 |
| 53 | Palestine | 14.43 |
| 54 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14.42 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 14.41 |
| 56 | Cape Verde | 13.79 |
| 57 | France | 13.7 |
| 58 | Saudi Arabia | 13.69 |
| 59 | Russia | 13.67 |
| 60 | Bahamas | 13.48 |
| 61 | Palau | 13.26 |
| 62 | Serbia | 12.97 |
| 63 | Estonia | 12.96 |
| 64 | Nauru | 12.88 |
| 65 | Croatia | 12.84 |
| 66 | Bulgaria | 12.83 |
| 67 | Lithuania | 12.73 |
| 68 | Albania | 12.28 |
| 69 | Antigua and Barbuda | 12.28 |
| 70 | Tunisia | 12.1 |
| 71 | Slovakia | 12.1 |
| 72 | Moldova | 12.07 |
| 73 | North Macedonia | 12.05 |
| 74 | Bolivia | 12.03 |
| 75 | Monaco | 11.93 |
| 76 | Ecuador | 11.87 |
| 77 | Lesotho | 11.83 |
| 78 | Poland | 11.75 |
| 79 | Belarus | 11.73 |
| 80 | Switzerland | 11.65 |
| 81 | Israel | 11.57 |
| 82 | Suriname | 11.55 |
| 83 | Italy | 11.44 |
| 84 | Trinidad and Tobago | 11.07 |
| 85 | Belize | 10.88 |
| 86 | Oman | 10.84 |
| 87 | Kazakhstan | 10.7 |
| 88 | Romania | 10.66 |
| 89 | Eswatini | 10.64 |
| 90 | Morocco | 10.61 |
| 91 | Jordan | 10.5 |
| 92 | Vietnam | 10.45 |
| 93 | Luxembourg | 10.44 |
| 94 | China | 10.37 |
| 95 | Cook Islands | 10.28 |
| 96 | Bhutan | 10.2 |
| 97 | Ghana | 10.05 |
| 98 | Latvia | 9.91 |
| 99 | Saint Lucia | 9.79 |
| 100 | Türkiye | 9.78 |
| 101 | Gabon | 9.59 |
| 102 | Seychelles | 9.58 |
| 103 | Libya | 9.57 |
| 104 | Hungary | 9.51 |
| 105 | Brazil | 9.48 |
| 106 | Papua New Guinea | 9.45 |
| 107 | Honduras | 9.43 |
| 108 | Mexico | 9.36 |
| 109 | Fiji | 9.32 |
| 110 | Timor-Leste | 9.16 |
| 111 | Kuwait | 9.02 |
| 112 | Kiribati | 9 |
| 113 | Rwanda | 8.92 |
| 114 | Zambia | 8.89 |
| 115 | Burkina Faso | 8.78 |
| 116 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 8.77 |
| 117 | Philippines | 8.77 |
| 118 | Kenya | 8.65 |
| 119 | Turkmenistan | 8.62 |
| 120 | Greece | 8.58 |
| 121 | Mongolia | 8.56 |
| 122 | Indonesia | 8.52 |
| 123 | Bahrain | 8.49 |
| 124 | Central African Republic | 8.48 |
| 125 | Solomon Islands | 8.41 |
| 126 | Mauritius | 8.24 |
| 127 | Malaysia | 7.94 |
| 128 | Somalia | 7.9 |
| 129 | Uzbekistan | 7.9 |
| 130 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 7.89 |
| 131 | Barbados | 7.81 |
| 132 | Georgia | 7.78 |
| 133 | Syria | 7.71 |
| 134 | Qatar | 7.69 |
| 135 | Nepal | 7.66 |
| 136 | Guyana | 7.31 |
| 137 | Kyrgyzstan | 7.3 |
| 138 | Grenada | 7.27 |
| 139 | Chad | 7.26 |
| 140 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 7.19 |
| 141 | Sudan | 7.15 |
| 142 | Tonga | 7.06 |
| 143 | Brunei | 7.02 |
| 144 | Yemen | 6.96 |
| 145 | Egypt | 6.93 |
| 146 | Mozambique | 6.76 |
| 147 | Niue | 6.71 |
| 148 | Cambodia | 6.65 |
| 149 | Côte d’Ivoire | 6.58 |
| 150 | Sri Lanka | 6.33 |
| 151 | Iraq | 6.18 |
| 152 | Algeria | 6.17 |
| 153 | Niger | 6.15 |
| 154 | Tajikistan | 6.14 |
| 155 | Mauritania | 5.94 |
| 156 | Angola | 5.9 |
| 157 | Equatorial Guinea | 5.87 |
| 158 | Ethiopia | 5.68 |
| 159 | Vanuatu | 5.6 |
| 160 | Madagascar | 5.51 |
| 161 | Gambia | 5.46 |
| 162 | Armenia | 5.46 |
| 163 | Mali | 5.43 |
| 164 | Republic of the Congo | 5.42 |
| 165 | Tanzania | 5.14 |
| 166 | Guinea | 5.12 |
| 167 | Dominica | 5.03 |
| 168 | Djibouti | 4.89 |
| 169 | Uganda | 4.86 |
| 170 | Liberia | 4.79 |
| 171 | Zimbabwe | 4.74 |
| 172 | Comoros | 4.74 |
| 173 | Burundi | 4.73 |
| 174 | Pakistan | 4.68 |
| 175 | India | 4.59 |
| 176 | Haiti | 4.56 |
| 177 | Sierra Leone | 4.47 |
| 178 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.29 |
| 179 | Azerbaijan | 4.26 |
| 180 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 4 |
| 181 | Nigeria | 3.91 |
| 182 | Cameroon | 3.91 |
| 183 | Venezuela | 3.63 |
| 184 | Senegal | 3.57 |
| 185 | Micronesia | 3.43 |
| 186 | Malawi | 3.29 |
| 187 | Laos | 3.21 |
| 188 | Togo | 2.56 |
| 189 | Benin | 2.55 |
| 190 | Bangladesh | 2.47 |
| 191 | Eritrea | 2.37 |
| 192 | Myanmar | 2.34 |
| 193 | South Sudan | 2.14 |
| 194 | Afghanistan | 1.46 |