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El Salvador — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for El Salvador, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
9.29%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +18.4% since 2000
Health spending for El Salvador was 9.29% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 10.13% in 2021. The lowest was 7.77% in 2003 (about 1.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.74% per year.
El Salvador ranks 39 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 21%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 6.87%, so El Salvador sits above it. It peaked in 2021 and has fallen 8% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved up 3%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
9.29%
First (2000)
7.84%
Change
+18.4%
Highest
10.13%
in 2021
Lowest
7.77%
in 2003
Average
8.69%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.74%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 9.29% |
| 2022 | 9.82% |
| 2021 | 10.13% |
| 2020 | 8.95% |
| 2019 | 8.81% |
| 2018 | 8.32% |
| 2017 | 8.42% |
| 2016 | 8.71% |
| 2015 | 8.76% |
| 2014 | 8.6% |
| 2013 | 9.05% |
| 2012 | 8.61% |
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.