Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP reached 10.4 % in 2017 in Canada, according to World Bank / WHO. This is 1.18 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Canada reached an all time high of 10.6 % in 2009 and an all time low of 5.42 % in 1960. When compared to Canada's main peers, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Australia amounted to 9.13 %, 5.40 % in Mexico, 9.65 % in United Kingdom and 17.2 % in USA in 2017.
Canada has been ranked 7th within the group of 36 countries we follow in terms of total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 9 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure.
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