Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP reached 10.4 % in 2017 in Norway, according to World Bank / WHO. This is 1.26 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Norway reached an all time high of 10.5 % in 2016 and an all time low of 2.88 % in 1960. When compared to Norway's main peers, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Denmark amounted to 10.2 %, 9.22 % in Finland, 8.49 % in Iceland and 10.9 % in Sweden in 2017.
Norway has been ranked 8th within the group of 36 countries we follow in terms of total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 28 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure.
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