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Benin — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Benin, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
3.34%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +12.8% since 2000
Health spending for Benin was 3.34% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 3.67% in 2017. The lowest was 2.65% in 2008 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.52% per year.
Benin ranks 168 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 89%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.48%, so Benin sits below it. It peaked in 2017 and has fallen 9% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved up 16%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
3.34%
First (2000)
2.96%
Change
+12.8%
Highest
3.67%
in 2017
Lowest
2.65%
in 2008
Average
3.09%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.52%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.34% |
| 2022 | 2.98% |
| 2021 | 2.92% |
| 2020 | 3.05% |
| 2019 | 3% |
| 2018 | 3.44% |
| 2017 | 3.67% |
| 2016 | 3.62% |
| 2015 | 2.73% |
| 2014 | 2.69% |
| 2013 | 2.87% |
| 2012 | 3.08% |
Reading this correctly. Current health expenditure as a share of GDP. Covers both public and private spending on health goods and services. Figures are in % of GDP. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS — Health Spending (% of GDP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.