Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP reached 10.9 % in 2017 in Sweden, according to World Bank / WHO. This is 0.174 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Sweden reached an all time high of 11.1 % in 2014 and an all time low of 5.51 % in 1970. When compared to Sweden's main peers, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Denmark amounted to 10.2 %, 9.22 % in Finland and 10.4 % in Norway in 2017.
Sweden has been ranked 5th within the group of 36 countries we follow in terms of total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 30 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure.
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