Countries by government health spending, share of government spending
Costa Rica had the highest government health spending, share of government spending of 195 countries in 2020, at 25.21%. South Sudan had the lowest, at 2.11%. The median was 10.24%. Source: World Health Organization.
Top 40 countries, 2020
Full ranking
| Rank | Countries | 2020 (%) | Change on 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 25.21 | +1.05 pts |
| 2 | United States | 22.3 | -0.18 pts |
| 3 | Japan | 21.95 | -2.74 pts |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 20.36 | -0.16 pts |
| 5 | Ireland | 20.3 | -0.17 pts |
| 6 | Panama | 20.13 | -2.21 pts |
| 7 | Uruguay | 19.82 | -0.28 pts |
| 8 | Germany | 19.31 | -0.22 pts |
| 9 | Iran | 19.03 | -0.42 pts |
| 10 | Chile | 18.84 | +0.83 pts |
| 11 | Sweden | 18.55 | -0.12 pts |
| 12 | Colombia | 18.45 | +1.79 pts |
| 13 | Canada | 18.36 | -0.56 pts |
| 14 | Nicaragua | 18.3 | -0.63 pts |
| 15 | Paraguay | 18.26 | +1.81 pts |
| 16 | Maldives | 18.17 | +0.32 pts |
| 17 | El Salvador | 17.72 | +0.75 pts |
| 18 | Australia | 17.06 | -0.06 pts |
| 19 | Czechia | 17.06 | +1.38 pts |
| 20 | Norway | 17.05 | -0.47 pts |
| 21 | Denmark | 16.91 | -0.21 pts |
| 22 | South Africa | 16.89 | +1.6 pts |
| 23 | Peru | 16.67 | +1.33 pts |
| 24 | New Zealand | 16.58 | +0.38 pts |
| 25 | Argentina | 16.46 | +0.15 pts |
| 26 | Cuba | 16.43 | +0.91 pts |
| 27 | Guatemala | 15.86 | -1.79 pts |
| 28 | Netherlands | 15.79 | +0.21 pts |
| 29 | Bolivia | 15.78 | +2.23 pts |
| 30 | Iceland | 15.76 | -0.69 pts |
| 31 | Namibia | 15.71 | +1.62 pts |
| 32 | Malta | 15.62 | -0.31 pts |
| 33 | Austria | 15.2 | -0.87 pts |
| 34 | Spain | 15.15 | -0.08 pts |
| 35 | Andorra | 15.06 | +0.48 pts |
| 36 | Russia | 15.01 | +4.81 pts |
| 37 | France | 15 | -0.05 pts |
| 38 | Belgium | 14.93 | -0.69 pts |
| 39 | Bahamas | 14.91 | +0.77 pts |
| 40 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14.88 | -0.49 pts |
| 41 | Dominican Republic | 14.68 | -0.27 pts |
| 42 | Samoa | 14.57 | +0.95 pts |
| 43 | Lebanon | 14.47 | +0.79 pts |
| 44 | Jamaica | 13.99 | +0.67 pts |
| 45 | Finland | 13.97 | -0.09 pts |
| 46 | Singapore | 13.86 | -2.43 pts |
| 47 | Antigua and Barbuda | 13.78 | +2.48 pts |
| 48 | Portugal | 13.76 | +0.15 pts |
| 49 | Cyprus | 13.52 | +4.11 pts |
| 50 | Cape Verde | 13.45 | +1.66 pts |
| 51 | Suriname | 13.35 | -1.7 pts |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 13.32 | +1.34 pts |
| 53 | Slovenia | 13.3 | -0.86 pts |
| 54 | Liechtenstein | 13.27 | -2.03 pts |
| 55 | Ecuador | 13.13 | +0.78 pts |
| 56 | Montenegro | 13.13 | +1.6 pts |
| 57 | South Korea | 13.01 | -0.87 pts |
| 58 | Guyana | 13.01 | +2.69 pts |
| 59 | San Marino | 12.86 | -19.38 pts |
| 60 | Estonia | 12.86 | +0.23 pts |
| 61 | North Macedonia | 12.83 | -0.73 pts |
| 62 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 12.8 | +3.03 pts |
| 63 | Italy | 12.77 | -0.26 pts |
| 64 | Slovakia | 12.74 | -0.66 pts |
| 65 | Tuvalu | 12.5 | -2.71 pts |
| 66 | Tunisia | 12.49 | +0.41 pts |
| 67 | Moldova | 12.38 | +0.26 pts |
| 68 | Honduras | 12.34 | +1.18 pts |
| 69 | Monaco | 12.31 | -2.19 pts |
| 70 | Bulgaria | 12.22 | +0.66 pts |
| 71 | Thailand | 12.15 | -1.13 pts |
| 72 | Lithuania | 12.03 | -1.02 pts |
| 73 | Romania | 11.99 | -0.67 pts |
| 74 | Belarus | 11.94 | +0.89 pts |
| 75 | Palau | 11.81 | -4.75 pts |
| 76 | Croatia | 11.71 | -0.25 pts |
| 77 | Palestine | 11.67 | -1.26 pts |
| 78 | Cook Islands | 11.67 | +2.33 pts |
| 79 | Botswana | 11.66 | -0.34 pts |
| 80 | Burkina Faso | 11.65 | +2.07 pts |
| 81 | Israel | 11.55 | -0.35 pts |
| 82 | Mexico | 11.52 | +1.2 pts |
| 83 | Belize | 11.44 | -0.64 pts |
| 84 | United Arab Emirates | 11.41 | +3.49 pts |
| 85 | Switzerland | 11.18 | -0.34 pts |
| 86 | Serbia | 11 | -1.03 pts |
| 87 | Barbados | 10.96 | +0.33 pts |
| 88 | Uzbekistan | 10.79 | +2.51 pts |
| 89 | Jordan | 10.77 | +0.69 pts |
| 90 | Latvia | 10.76 | +0.4 pts |
| 91 | Georgia | 10.73 | +1.35 pts |
| 92 | Luxembourg | 10.71 | -0.19 pts |
| 93 | Zambia | 10.56 | +2.99 pts |
| 94 | Türkiye | 10.5 | +0.96 pts |
| 95 | Eswatini | 10.39 | -2.54 pts |
| 96 | Niger | 10.34 | +0.96 pts |
| 97 | Bhutan | 10.3 | +0.06 pts |
| 98 | Oman | 10.24 | +1.65 pts |
| 99 | Indonesia | 10.24 | +1.7 pts |
| 100 | Kazakhstan | 10.06 | +1.81 pts |
| 101 | Syria | 10.03 | +0.96 pts |
| 102 | Hungary | 9.99 | +0.68 pts |
| 103 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 9.97 | +0.11 pts |
| 104 | Libya | 9.74 | +1.38 pts |
| 105 | Sri Lanka | 9.74 | +0.82 pts |
| 106 | Poland | 9.68 | -1.33 pts |
| 107 | Gabon | 9.59 | 0 pts |
| 108 | Seychelles | 9.58 | 0 pts |
| 109 | Trinidad and Tobago | 9.56 | -0.68 pts |
| 110 | Sudan | 9.55 | +3.99 pts |
| 111 | Qatar | 9.54 | +1.15 pts |
| 112 | Kiribati | 9.3 | +0.78 pts |
| 113 | Albania | 9.19 | -0.86 pts |
| 114 | Nauru | 9.05 | -0.73 pts |
| 115 | Brazil | 9.03 | -0.07 pts |
| 116 | Philippines | 9 | +1.21 pts |
| 117 | Mauritius | 8.99 | -0.01 pts |
| 118 | Solomon Islands | 8.97 | -0.18 pts |
| 119 | Lesotho | 8.95 | -3.66 pts |
| 120 | Kenya | 8.91 | +0.68 pts |
| 121 | Algeria | 8.83 | -0 pts |
| 122 | Turkmenistan | 8.71 | -0.01 pts |
| 123 | Malaysia | 8.69 | +0.17 pts |
| 124 | Fiji | 8.68 | -0.05 pts |
| 125 | Kuwait | 8.66 | -0.51 pts |
| 126 | China | 8.65 | -0.12 pts |
| 127 | Saint Lucia | 8.6 | +0.32 pts |
| 128 | Greece | 8.54 | +0.24 pts |
| 129 | Vietnam | 8.43 | -1.77 pts |
| 130 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8.35 | +1.48 pts |
| 131 | Bahrain | 8.29 | +1.23 pts |
| 132 | Republic of the Congo | 8.22 | +3.11 pts |
| 133 | Ukraine | 8.17 | +0.52 pts |
| 134 | Yemen | 8.07 | +1.17 pts |
| 135 | Ghana | 8.02 | -0.75 pts |
| 136 | Tonga | 7.88 | +0.37 pts |
| 137 | Marshall Islands | 7.75 | -2.4 pts |
| 138 | Gambia | 7.7 | +2.32 pts |
| 139 | Armenia | 7.69 | +2.02 pts |
| 140 | Tajikistan | 7.38 | +0.79 pts |
| 141 | Burundi | 7.33 | -0.57 pts |
| 142 | Angola | 7.31 | +1.8 pts |
| 143 | Morocco | 7.22 | -0.09 pts |
| 144 | Mozambique | 7.06 | +0.54 pts |
| 145 | Grenada | 7 | -2.43 pts |
| 146 | Brunei | 6.95 | +0.46 pts |
| 147 | Mongolia | 6.92 | +0.04 pts |
| 148 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.92 | -0.18 pts |
| 149 | Cambodia | 6.9 | -0.09 pts |
| 150 | Comoros | 6.89 | +2.76 pts |
| 151 | Malawi | 6.87 | -1.07 pts |
| 152 | Ethiopia | 6.79 | +2.03 pts |
| 153 | Papua New Guinea | 6.73 | +0.36 pts |
| 154 | Timor-Leste | 6.59 | +2.4 pts |
| 155 | Côte d’Ivoire | 6.54 | +0.94 pts |
| 156 | Equatorial Guinea | 6.4 | +1.6 pts |
| 157 | Rwanda | 6.39 | +0.12 pts |
| 158 | Iraq | 6.16 | +0.17 pts |
| 159 | Vanuatu | 5.93 | +1.15 pts |
| 160 | Venezuela | 5.85 | +4.24 pts |
| 161 | Senegal | 5.85 | +2.35 pts |
| 162 | Azerbaijan | 5.8 | +2.51 pts |
| 163 | Niue | 5.76 | +0.91 pts |
| 164 | Nepal | 5.67 | +1.64 pts |
| 165 | Uganda | 5.55 | +2.42 pts |
| 166 | Mauritania | 5.42 | -0.76 pts |
| 167 | Dominica | 5.41 | -2.16 pts |
| 168 | Mali | 5.37 | +0.54 pts |
| 169 | Sierra Leone | 5.3 | -0.54 pts |
| 170 | Egypt | 5.16 | +0.34 pts |
| 171 | Pakistan | 5.12 | +0.17 pts |
| 172 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5.09 | +0.96 pts |
| 173 | Tanzania | 4.94 | -4.5 pts |
| 174 | Central African Republic | 4.86 | +0.02 pts |
| 175 | Haiti | 4.84 | +0.59 pts |
| 176 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.8 | +2.35 pts |
| 177 | Zimbabwe | 4.74 | +1.47 pts |
| 178 | Guinea | 4.55 | -1.64 pts |
| 179 | Laos | 4.31 | -0.85 pts |
| 180 | Afghanistan | 4.25 | +2.47 pts |
| 181 | Madagascar | 4.22 | -0.23 pts |
| 182 | Somalia | 4.21 | +0.08 pts |
| 183 | Nigeria | 4.18 | +0.42 pts |
| 184 | Djibouti | 4.16 | -1 pts |
| 185 | Chad | 3.95 | -0.91 pts |
| 186 | Togo | 3.85 | -1.53 pts |
| 187 | Liberia | 3.75 | -0.45 pts |
| 188 | India | 3.69 | -0.16 pts |
| 189 | Cameroon | 3.66 | +1.48 pts |
| 190 | Myanmar | 3.36 | +0.4 pts |
| 191 | Micronesia | 2.91 | -0.15 pts |
| 192 | Benin | 2.68 | -0.44 pts |
| 193 | Bangladesh | 2.67 | +0.01 pts |
| 194 | Eritrea | 2.37 | 0 pts |
| 195 | South Sudan | 2.11 | 0 pts |
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About this ranking
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.
A share of all government spending, not of GDP; health aid from abroad is excluded. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
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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.Use this data in your AI agent
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Which country has the highest government health spending, share of government spending?
Costa Rica, with 25.21% in 2020, according to World Health Organization.
Which country has the lowest government health spending, share of government spending?
South Sudan, with 2.11% in 2020.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Health Organization, Domestic general government health expenditure (GGHE-D) as percentage of general government expenditure (GGE) (%) (GHED_GGHE-DGGE_SHA2011). Retrieved 2026-10-12.