Home / Health spending / Canada
Canada — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Canada, 2000–2024.
Latest value · 2024
11.31%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +37.1% since 2000
Health spending for Canada was 11.31% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 2000 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 13.02% in 2020. The lowest was 8.25% in 2000 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.32% per year.
Canada ranks 13 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 7%. The median for North America is 16.69%, so Canada sits below it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 13% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 10%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
11.31%
First (2000)
8.25%
Change
+37.1%
Highest
13.02%
in 2020
Lowest
8.25%
in 2000
Average
10.32%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.32%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.31% |
| 2023 | 11.19% |
| 2022 | 11.08% |
| 2021 | 12.38% |
| 2020 | 13.02% |
| 2019 | 11.05% |
| 2018 | 10.92% |
| 2017 | 10.92% |
| 2016 | 11.06% |
| 2015 | 10.76% |
| 2014 | 10.28% |
| 2013 | 10.44% |
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.