Home / Health spending / Botswana
Botswana — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Botswana, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
6.26%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +2.4% since 2000
Health spending for Botswana was 6.26% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 6.67% in 2002. The lowest was 4.88% in 2006 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.10% per year.
Botswana ranks 98 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 52%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.48%, so Botswana sits above it. It peaked in 2002 and has fallen 6% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 4%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
6.26%
First (2000)
6.11%
Change
+2.4%
Highest
6.67%
in 2002
Lowest
4.88%
in 2006
Average
6.07%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.10%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.26% |
| 2022 | 5.74% |
| 2021 | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 6.12% |
| 2019 | 6.12% |
| 2018 | 6.04% |
| 2017 | 6.63% |
| 2016 | 5.77% |
| 2015 | 6.1% |
| 2014 | 5.88% |
| 2013 | 6.5% |
| 2012 | 6.35% |
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.