Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

Name: Current health expenditure (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank
License: https://data.worldbank.org/terms-and-conditions
Keywords: health, health-expenditure, health-spending, world-bank, annual

Commercial use OKFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

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Current health expenditure as a share of GDP, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Current health expenditure covers total spending on health goods and services (preventive and curative care, medical goods, governance and health-system administration) by public and private payers; capital expenditure on health is excluded. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database. It pairs with the connector's life-expectancy dataset and the under-5-mortality dataset added alongside it: health-spending input against longevity and child-mortality outcomes. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2024 in the live vintage (Canada, Germany, France and the UK publish through 2024; the others through 2023) - genuine upstream reporting lags, kept verbatim, never interpolated. Units: % of GDP.

Source: World Bank
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 24, 2026
Theme: health

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_name	string	Country name as published by the World Bank API.
year	integer	Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
value	float	Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP)

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country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	8.248
CAN	Canada	2,001	8.625
CAN	Canada	2,002	8.857
CAN	Canada	2,003	9.011
CAN	Canada	2,004	9.066
CAN	Canada	2,005	9.035
CAN	Canada	2,006	9.332
CAN	Canada	2,007	9.435
CAN	Canada	2,008	9.594
CAN	Canada	2,009	10.704

Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T161246Z-0e74cde517ad

Measured

Completeness: 98.6%
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 1

Rows per yearyear · 2000–2025 · 26 years

20002025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
country_codevarchar	0%	7	—	CAN26 CHN26 DEU26
country_namevarchar	0%	9	—	Canada26 China26 France26
yearbigint	0%	27	2,000 → 2,025median 2,013
valuedouble	5.8%	171	2.86 → 18.52median 10.09	4 outside 1st–99th percentile

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/health_expenditure_gdp_share").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

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World Bank. (2026). Current health expenditure (% of GDP) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T161246Z-0e74cde517ad, sha256 0e74cde517ad]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/health_expenditure_gdp_share?snapshot=20260924T161246Z-0e74cde517ad

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@misc{dz_world_bank_health_expenditure_gdp_share_0e74cde5,
  title        = {{Current health expenditure (\% of GDP)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/health_expenditure_gdp_share?snapshot=20260924T161246Z-0e74cde517ad}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260924T161246Z-0e74cde517ad, sha256 0e74cde517ad1277dcdd1d2a052e2c07386ff606342dcaa2a7a1ea3eceee6920; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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