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May 20, 2022 · These advances had been partly underpinned by a doubling in global spending on health between 2000 and 2019, reaching 9.8% of global gross domestic product. But approximately 80% of that spending occurred in high-income countries, the bulk of it (about 70%) coming from government budgets.
- World Health Statistics - WHO
The World Health Statistics 2020 summarizes recent trends in...
- Global spending on health: rising to the pandemic’s challenges
Sharp increases in government spending on health at all...
- World Health Statistics - WHO
Countries and health systems continue to contend with the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a persistent fossil fuel overdependence has pushed the world into global energy and cost-of-living crises.
Domestic general government health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $)
Higher health spending in response to a global pandemic • In 2020, global spending on health reached US$ 9 trillion, or 10.8% of global gross domestic prod-uct (GDP), and was highly unequal across income groups. • Across countries, health spending in 2020 rose in per capita terms and as a share of GDP across all income groups.
Jan 31, 2024 · The report shows that global spending on health continued to increase in 2021, the second year of the pandemic, to US$ 9.8 trillion (10.3% of global GDP). The increase in spending was driven by higher government spending and out-of-pocket spending.
Dec 8, 2022 · Sharp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately 11% of global GDP). Government health spending generally increased and offset declines in out-of-pocket spending.
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From what funding sources? In which countries? On what services? Will this set a new trajectory for global health spending? Unanswered from the report. Let’s hear from our panel. Total global spending on health rose 6.3% while global GDP fell 3.4% from 2019 to 2020.
