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Guyana — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Guyana, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
2.47%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · -22.6% since 2000
Health spending for Guyana was 2.47% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 5.38% in 2020. Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -1.11% per year.
Guyana ranks 185 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 98%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 6.87%, so Guyana sits below it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 54% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 35%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
2.47%
First (2000)
3.19%
Change
-22.6%
Highest
5.38%
in 2020
Lowest
2.47%
in 2023
Average
3.91%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-1.11%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.47% |
| 2022 | 2.52% |
| 2021 | 4.64% |
| 2020 | 5.38% |
| 2019 | 4.9% |
| 2018 | 4.9% |
| 2017 | 4.32% |
| 2016 | 4.02% |
| 2015 | 4.02% |
| 2014 | 3.95% |
| 2013 | 3.8% |
| 2012 | 3.71% |
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.