Healthcare expenditure development in Germany 2002-2020

Healthcare spending in Germany has gradually increased since 2002 when it amounted to 228.7 billion euros. By 2020, healthcare expenditure in Germany stood at 441 billion euros. This was an increase of 7.3 percent compared to the previous year's healthcare spending. 

Health expenditure in Germany compared to Europe

As of 2019, Germany spent nearly 12 percent of its GDP on healthcare. In comparison to other European countries, this ranked Germany third in terms of health expenditure in that year. Top of the list was Switzerland, which spent over 12 percent of its’ GDP on healthcare in this year.  

Healthcare quality and cost Germany

Despite the increasing healthcare expenditure, just 6 in 10 Germans say the quality of health care they have access to is good or very good, while 1 in 10 said it was poor. In comparison, 77 percent reported they have good or very good health care in the Netherlands, a comparable neighboring country. Furthermore, roughly a third of Germans agreed that many people in their country could not afford good health care, while a similar percentage disagreed.