Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP reached 10.0 % in 2017 in Belgium, according to World Bank / WHO. This is 0.179 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Belgium reached an all time high of 10.3 % in 2014 and an all time low of 3.84 % in 1970. When compared to Belgium's main peers, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in France amounted to 11.5 %, 11.3 % in Germany, 6.08 % in Luxembourg and 10.1 % in Netherlands in 2017.
Belgium has been ranked 12th within the group of 36 countries we follow in terms of total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 11 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure.
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