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Gabon — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Gabon, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
3.13%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +7.9% since 2000
Health spending for Gabon was 3.13% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 3.78% in 2009. The lowest was 2.42% in 2012 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.33% per year.
Gabon ranks 171 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 90%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.48%, so Gabon sits below it. It peaked in 2009 and has fallen 17% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved up 10%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
3.13%
First (2000)
2.90%
Change
+7.9%
Highest
3.78%
in 2009
Lowest
2.42%
in 2012
Average
2.97%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.33%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.13% |
| 2022 | 2.89% |
| 2021 | 2.79% |
| 2020 | 3.44% |
| 2019 | 2.77% |
| 2018 | 2.75% |
| 2017 | 2.78% |
| 2016 | 3.11% |
| 2015 | 2.66% |
| 2014 | 2.53% |
| 2013 | 2.84% |
| 2012 | 2.42% |
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.