Global Government Health Expenditure as a Percentage of GDP

Government expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP, published by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ). The dataset is available in CSV and XML formats and was last updated on July 12, 2026. Its license is CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Modeling the correlation between health spending and national economic indicators (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking a country's health expenditure against global trends (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Forecasting future public health budget requirements (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the HDX platform, which aggregates data from over 40 open sources.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
• Last updated on 2026-07-12 10:40:43.384389.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-12 10:40:43.384389.

Geography

Global