Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP reached 9.65 % in 2017 in United Kingdom, according to World Bank / WHO. This is 1.20 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in United Kingdom reached an all time high of 9.79 % in 2015 and an all time low of 3.91 % in 1960. When compared to United Kingdom's main peers, total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Belgium amounted to 10.0 %, 11.5 % in France, 11.3 % in Germany and 7.10 % in Ireland in 2017.
United Kingdom has been ranked 13th within the group of 36 countries we follow in terms of total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 34 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditure.
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