Health financing
Our health financing work examines health spending from governments, individuals, and other channels to inform policymakers about where resources for health are coming from and where they are going.
79%
of global spending on health care is in high-income countries, despite containing only 16% of the world’s population.
60%
of the total global health spending came from governments, but this amount varies dramatically by income group and across countries.
$37.8 billion
was provided as development assistance for COVID in low- and middle-income countries in 2020 and 2021.
$1,827
is the expected global health spending per person by 2050. This is 43.4% larger than in 2023.
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Datasets in our catalog
Visit the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) to download our estimates of health spending for most of the world’s countries over the last two decades, and forecasts of future spending through 2050.
Development Assistance for Health Database 1990-2021
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Development Assistance for Health Database 1990-2021
Development Assistance for Health on COVID Database 2020-2021
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Development Assistance for Health on COVID Database 2020-2021
Global Expected Health Spending Database 2020-2050
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Global Expected Health Spending Database 2020-2050
Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19
