Health expenditure as a share of GDP Laos 2012-2021

In 2021, the health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product in Laos increased by 0.7 percentage points (+33.98 percent) compared to 2020. With 2.74 percent, the share thereby reached its highest value in the observed period. Over the observed period, the share has been subject to fluctuation.
This indicator estimates current health expenditures, including healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT, and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks. The level of current health expenditure is expressed as a share of GDP.

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