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Palau — Health spending
Health Spending (% of GDP) for Palau, 2000–2023.
Latest value · 2023
10.85%
Health Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +25.7% since 2000
Health spending for Palau was 10.85% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 24 years, from 2000 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 14.88% in 2022. The lowest was 7.29% in 2002 (about 1.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.00% per year.
Palau ranks 17 of 189 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 9%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 5.94%, so Palau sits above it. It peaked in 2022 and has fallen 27% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
10.85%
First (2000)
8.64%
Change
+25.7%
Highest
14.88%
in 2022
Lowest
7.29%
in 2002
Average
10.23%
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.00%
Years of data
24
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.85% |
| 2022 | 14.88% |
| 2021 | 14.55% |
| 2020 | 13.32% |
| 2019 | 12.17% |
| 2018 | 11.19% |
| 2017 | 10.9% |
| 2016 | 10.01% |
| 2015 | 9.76% |
| 2014 | 10.71% |
| 2013 | 10.93% |
| 2012 | 10.25% |
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.