General expenditure on health as GDP share in the European Union (EU) 2019

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 4, 2021
In 2019, Norway spend with 8.7 percent the largest share of its GDP on health care. Austria and Denmark ranked second and third with 8.3 and 8.2 percent respectively. Latvia, Cyprus, and the Switzerland used the lowest share of their GDP of all European countries for their healthcare system.

General government expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP in the European Union in 2019

CharacteristicPercentage of GDP
Norway 8.7%
Austria 8.3%
Denmark 8.2%
France* 8%
Iceland 7.9%
United Kingdom 7.7%
Slovakia 7.7%
Netherlands 7.7%
Belgium 7.6%
Czechia 7.6%
Germany 7.4%
Finland 7.1%
Sweden 7%
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March 2021

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Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

* Provisional value.
These indicators present total expenditure of general government devoted to three different socio-economic functions (according to the Classification of the Functions of Government - COFOG), expressed as a ratio to GDP.
The data refers to Section [GF07] of the Eurostat Database Statistic, online data code [TEPSR_SP110].

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