Health expenditure, public (% of government expenditure) - Health Nutrition and Population Statistics

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Public health expenditure consists of recurrent and capital spending from government (central and local) budgets, external borrowings and grants (including donations from international agencies and nongovernmental organizations), and social (or compulsory) health insurance funds.

Rank	Country	Value
Health expenditure, public (% of government expenditure) - Health Nutrition and Population Statistics (2009)
1	Costa Rica	30.61
2	Andorra	21.25
3	Micronesia	20.54
4	Marshall Islands	20.14
5	Switzerland	19.99
6	Kiribati	19.22
7	United States	18.68
8	North America	18.57
9	Monaco	18.52
10	New Zealand	18.33
11	Tanzania	18.08
12	Germany	18.01
13	Colombia	17.95
14	Nicaragua	17.93
15	Japan	17.92
16	Croatia	17.58
17	Liberia	17.21
18	Australia	17.10
19	Canada	17.01
20	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.97
21	Rwanda	16.78
22	Solomon Islands	16.78
23	Botswana	16.71
24	Palau	16.70
25	Norway	16.68
26	Burkina Faso	16.26
27	Netherlands	16.18
28	Jordan	16.14
29	France	16.03
30	Ireland	16.01
31	Guatemala	15.95
32	Western Samoa	15.95
33	Austria	15.78
34	Chile	15.64
35	Cuba	15.50
36	Portugal	15.44
37	Denmark	15.34
38	Peru	15.29
39	Panama	15.25
40	Spain	15.22
41	United Kingdom	15.12
42	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15.12
43	Madagascar	15.10
44	Belgium	14.84
45	Argentina	14.60
46	Tonga	14.55
47	Guyana	14.51
48	Suriname	14.50
49	Niger	14.49
50	Italy	14.17
51	Moldova	14.07
52	Thailand	13.99
53	Slovakia	13.96
54	Serbia	13.92
55	Djibouti	13.91
56	Uruguay	13.85
57	Sweden	13.82
58	Chad	13.77
59	Luxembourg	13.72
60	San Marino	13.64
61	Vanuatu	13.60
62	Montenegro	13.59
63	Bhutan	13.34
64	Czech Republic	13.28
65	Honduras	13.22
66	Sao Tome and Principe	13.21
67	Iceland	13.08
68	Greece	12.96
69	Slovenia	12.91
70	Malta	12.83
71	Lithuania	12.81
72	Turkey	12.79
73	Bahamas	12.61
74	Finland	12.59
75	Mozambique	12.55
76	Dominican Republic	12.38
77	Paraguay	12.33
78	El Salvador	12.33
79	South Korea	12.26
80	North Korea	12.26
81	Belize	12.16
82	Namibia	12.13
83	Lebanon	12.11
84	Macedonia	12.11
85	Malawi	12.07
86	Mexico	11.91
87	Dominica	11.85
88	Romania	11.83
89	St. Lucia	11.79
90	Burundi	11.78
91	Estonia	11.74
92	Kyrgyzstan	11.68
93	Gambia	11.60
94	Senegal	11.58
95	Uganda	11.58
96	Ethiopia	11.41
97	Seychelles	11.35
98	Kazakhstan	11.28
99	Bulgaria	11.18
100	Antigua and Barbuda	11.03
101	Tuvalu	10.99
102	Central African Republic	10.96
103	Poland	10.93
104	Bahrain	10.87
105	Zambia	10.84
106	Barbados	10.83
107	Algeria	10.63
108	Mongolia	10.53
109	Tunisia	10.44
110	China	10.27
111	Latvia	10.19
112	Hungary	10.19
113	Cape Verde	10.17
114	Israel	10.02
115	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	10
116	Sudan	9.85
117	Trinidad and Tobago	9.82
118	Singapore	9.80
119	Timor-Leste	9.76
120	Uzbekistan	9.59
121	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	9.49
122	Haiti	9.46
123	Grenada	9.41
124	Upper middle income	9.35
125	Fiji	9.32
126	Swaziland	9.32
127	Mali	9.31
128	Cambodia	9.30
129	South Africa	9.27
130	Ghana	9.18
131	Vietnam	8.91
132	United Arab Emirates	8.86
133	Belarus	8.76
134	Iran	8.67
135	Nepal	8.63
136	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	8.59
137	Ukraine	8.58
138	Venezuela	8.56
139	Benin	8.53
140	Russia	8.53
141	Ecuador	8.43
142	Albania	8.42
143	Angola	8.38
144	Saudi Arabia	8.38
145	Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)	8.33
146	Gabon	8.28
147	Mauritius	8.27
148	Lesotho	8.23
149	Cameroon	8.15
150	Togo	8.03
151	Comoros	8.01
152	Papua New Guinea	8
153	St. Kitts and Nevis	7.97
154	Georgia	7.55
155	Bangladesh	7.52
156	Maldives	7.47
157	Bolivia	7.38
158	Sri Lanka	7.32
159	Malaysia	7.25
160	Turkmenistan	7.03
161	Brunei Darussalam	7
162	Equatorial Guinea	6.96
163	Morocco	6.96
164	Indonesia	6.86
165	Qatar	6.83
166	Armenia	6.63
167	Tajikistan	6.43
168	Nigeria	6.41
169	Philippines	6.09
170	Brazil	6.08
171	Egypt	5.94
172	Cyprus	5.83
173	Oman	5.76
174	Kuwait	5.59
175	Jamaica	5.56
176	Libya	5.50
177	Kenya	5.38
178	Republic of the Congo	5.29
179	Mauritania	4.88
180	Syria	4.62
181	Ivory Coast	4.35
182	Guinea	4.33
183	Yemen	4.30
184	Sierra Leone	4.18
185	South Asia	4.16
186	India	4.06
187	Guinea-Bissau	4.01
188	Laos	3.73
189	Azerbaijan	3.73
190	Afghanistan	3.67
191	Pakistan	3.58
192	Eritrea	3.13
193	Iraq	3.09
194	Burma	0.79

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