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Madagascar — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Madagascar, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
3.43%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · -14.1% since 2000
Health spending for Madagascar was 3.43% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 5.33% in 2016. The lowest was 3.10% in 2019 (about 1.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.66% per year.
Madagascar ranks 166 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 88%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.48%, so Madagascar sits below it. It peaked in 2016 and has fallen 36% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 9%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
3.43%
First (2000)
3.99%
Change
-14.1%
Highest
5.33%
in 2016
Lowest
3.10%
in 2019
Average
4.35%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.66%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.43% |
| 2022 | 3.15% |
| 2021 | 3.55% |
| 2020 | 3.72% |
| 2019 | 3.1% |
| 2018 | 4.22% |
| 2017 | 4.8% |
| 2016 | 5.33% |
| 2015 | 5.01% |
| 2014 | 4.46% |
| 2013 | 3.75% |
| 2012 | 3.91% |
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.