Home / Health spending / Bhutan
Bhutan — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Bhutan, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
4.42%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +6.7% since 2000
Health spending for Bhutan was 4.42% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 4.79% in 2021. The lowest was 3.02% in 2011 (about 1.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.28% per year.
Bhutan ranks 141 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 75%. The median for South Asia is 4.42%, so Bhutan sits level with it. It peaked in 2021 and has fallen 8% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved up 32%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
4.42%
First (2000)
4.14%
Change
+6.7%
Highest
4.79%
in 2021
Lowest
3.02%
in 2011
Average
3.69%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.28%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.42% |
| 2022 | 3.92% |
| 2021 | 4.79% |
| 2020 | 4.08% |
| 2019 | 3.38% |
| 2018 | 3.07% |
| 2017 | 3.11% |
| 2016 | 3.28% |
| 2015 | 3.44% |
| 2014 | 3.23% |
| 2013 | 3.35% |
| 2012 | 3.26% |
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.