# EU countries by government health spending, share of government spending, 2023

All 27 values come from World Health Organization for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-health-organization
- 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/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ireland | 22.16 |
| 2 | Sweden | 19.45 |
| 3 | Germany | 19.21 |
| 4 | Denmark | 16.92 |
| 5 | Austria | 16.19 |
| 6 | Czechia | 16.18 |
| 7 | Malta | 15.91 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 15.56 |
| 9 | Finland | 15.19 |
| 10 | Belgium | 14.93 |
| 11 | Cyprus | 14.86 |
| 12 | Spain | 14.85 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 14.63 |
| 14 | Portugal | 14.56 |
| 15 | France | 13.7 |
| 16 | Estonia | 12.96 |
| 17 | Croatia | 12.84 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 12.83 |
| 19 | Lithuania | 12.73 |
| 20 | Slovakia | 12.1 |
| 21 | Poland | 11.75 |
| 22 | Italy | 11.44 |
| 23 | Romania | 10.66 |
| 24 | Luxembourg | 10.44 |
| 25 | Latvia | 9.91 |
| 26 | Hungary | 9.51 |
| 27 | Greece | 8.58 |