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Maldives — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Maldives, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
9.25%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +19.6% since 2000
Health spending for Maldives was 9.25% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 11.47% in 2008. The lowest was 6.78% in 2003 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.78% per year.
Maldives ranks 40 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 21%. The median for South Asia is 4.42%, so Maldives sits above it. It peaked in 2008 and has fallen 19% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved up 13%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
9.25%
First (2000)
7.74%
Change
+19.6%
Highest
11.47%
in 2008
Lowest
6.78%
in 2003
Average
8.62%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.78%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 9.25% |
| 2022 | 7.5% |
| 2021 | 8.85% |
| 2020 | 11.44% |
| 2019 | 7.5% |
| 2018 | 7.29% |
| 2017 | 9.15% |
| 2016 | 10.23% |
| 2015 | 8.68% |
| 2014 | 7.91% |
| 2013 | 8.16% |
| 2012 | 8.67% |
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.