Current health expenditure in North America

23 countries in North America, 2023. Unit: % of GDP. World ranking →

First in the ranking
16.7 %
United States
Median country
6.3 %
half above, half below
World
10.1 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
3.2 to 16.7
Haiti - United States

How to read it

Across 23 countries in North America, the highest value is in United States (16.7 %) and the lowest in Haiti (3.2 %).

The median country is at 6.3 %: half are above, half below.

Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks.

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Source: Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://apps.who.int/nha/database · via World Bank WDI (SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS) · licence

Health spending over time

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Ranking of countries

2023
In chart Share of the highest value
1United States16.7
2Canada11.2
3Cuba9.4
4El Salvador9.3
5Panama8.3
6Nicaragua8.3
7Honduras7.7
8Jamaica7.6
9Trinidad and Tobago7.5
10Costa Rica6.9
11Guatemala6.8
12Bahamas6.3
13Saint Kitts and Nevis5.7
14Mexico5.5
15Barbados5.4
16Dominica5.0
17Saint Lucia4.7
18Grenada4.7
19Dominican Republic4.6
20Saint Vincent and the Grenadines4.4
21Belize4.1
22Antigua and Barbuda3.9
23Haiti3.2
World Bank, WDI · SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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