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Denmark — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Denmark, 2000–2024.
Latest value · 2024
9.39%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +15.8% since 2000
Health spending for Denmark was 9.39% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 2000 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 10.69% in 2020. The lowest was 8.11% in 2000 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.61% per year.
Denmark ranks 36 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 19%. The median for Europe & Central Asia is 7.92%, so Denmark sits above it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 12% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved down 9%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
9.39%
First (2000)
8.11%
Change
+15.8%
Highest
10.69%
in 2020
Lowest
8.11%
in 2000
Average
9.75%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.61%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 9.39% |
| 2023 | 9.56% |
| 2022 | 9.47% |
| 2021 | 10.66% |
| 2020 | 10.69% |
| 2019 | 10.18% |
| 2018 | 10.14% |
| 2017 | 10.11% |
| 2016 | 10.28% |
| 2015 | 10.38% |
| 2014 | 10.31% |
| 2013 | 10.3% |
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.