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Chile — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Chile, 2000–2024.
Latest value · 2024
10.53%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +50.4% since 2000
Health spending for Chile was 10.53% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 2000 to 2024. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 6.07% in 2006 (about 1.7× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.72% per year.
Chile ranks 22 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 12%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 6.87%, so Chile sits above it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 34%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
10.53%
First (2000)
7.00%
Change
+50.4%
Highest
10.53%
in 2024
Lowest
6.07%
in 2006
Average
7.96%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.72%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.53% |
| 2023 | 10.17% |
| 2022 | 10.01% |
| 2021 | 9.72% |
| 2020 | 9.7% |
| 2019 | 9.31% |
| 2018 | 9.15% |
| 2017 | 9.09% |
| 2016 | 8.56% |
| 2015 | 8.35% |
| 2014 | 7.84% |
| 2013 | 7.48% |
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.