Health Spending in Europe by Country (2024)
Current health expenditure as a share of GDP across 28 European countries in 2024: Germany highest at 12.2%, Liechtenstein lowest at 5.3%. Eurostat system of health accounts.
Data
| # | Country | % of GDP | Change vs 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 12.2 | +0.6pp |
| 2 | Austria | 11.7 | +0.5pp |
| 3 | Switzerland | 11.4 | +0.2pp |
| 4 | France | 11.3 | unchanged |
| 5 | Sweden | 11.2 | unchanged |
| 6 | Belgium | 11.1 | +0.3pp |
| 7 | Portugal | 10.2 | +0.2pp |
| 8 | Netherlands | 10.1 | +0.1pp |
| 9 | Slovenia | 9.8 | +0.5pp |
| 10 | Denmark | 9.6 | unchanged |
| 11 | Spain | 9.3 | +0.1pp |
| 12 | Iceland | 9.2 | +0.6pp |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 8.5 | +0.6pp |
| 14 | Czechia | 8.5 | +0.1pp |
| 15 | Italy | 8.5 | +0.1pp |
| 16 | Greece | 8.4 | unchanged |
| 17 | Latvia | 8.4 | +1.1pp |
| 18 | Cyprus | 8 | +0.2pp |
| 19 | Slovakia | 8 | +0.6pp |
| 20 | Estonia | 8 | +0.6pp |
| 21 | Poland | 7.8 | +0.7pp |
| 22 | Lithuania | 7.6 | +0.3pp |
| 23 | Croatia | 7.6 | +0.6pp |
| 24 | Hungary | 6.5 | +0.1pp |
| 25 | Ireland | 6.5 | +0.2pp |
| 26 | Romania | 6.2 | +0.4pp |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 5.7 | +0.1pp |
| 28 | Liechtenstein | 5.3 | -0.2pp |
About this Dataset
Current health expenditure ranges from 12.2% of GDP in Germany to 5.3% in Liechtenstein among the 28 countries covered, against a panel average of 8.8%. That average moved +0.3pp on 2023. Eurostat also publishes 2024 figures for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova, which are not covered here.
Share of GDP and spending per person answer different questions. The first measures the claim health makes on the economy; the second measures what is actually available per patient.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Sweden lead the table, all at 11.2% of GDP or more. What they have in common is an old population and comprehensive coverage rather than a single financing model. Germany and France run social insurance, Sweden a tax-funded service, Switzerland compulsory private insurance. At the bottom, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Romania, Ireland and Hungary spend under 7% of GDP, though for different reasons: Luxembourg and Ireland have GDP denominators that flatter them, while in Hungary and Romania the low figure is real and a high share of it is paid directly by patients. Out-of-pocket financing is the arrangement most associated with people going without care.
Every row is the figure published for 2024; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. Finland, Malta, Montenegro, Norway and Serbia have not published a 2024 figure and are left out rather than carried forward from an older year. The chart tracks a fixed panel of 27 countries: those reporting in every year from 2013. The line therefore moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. Figures follow the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) and cover current expenditure only, excluding capital investment.
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