Which has higher current health expenditure, Kuwait or United Arab Emirates?

United Arab Emirates, at 5.0% against 5.0% in Kuwait as of 2023.

What is the difference in current health expenditure between Kuwait and United Arab Emirates?

0.0%, with United Arab Emirates ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and United Arab Emirates?

24 years are reported by both, from 2000 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), published as Current health expenditure (% of GDP). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Kuwait vs United Arab Emirates: Current health expenditure

Kuwait

5.0%

in 2023

United Arab Emirates

5.0%

in 2023

Kuwait rank

128th

United Arab Emirates rank

127th

Current health expenditure over time

Kuwait
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 5.0% against 5.0% in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2000 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Kuwait ranks 128th and United Arab Emirates ranks 127th of 193 countries.

United Arab Emirates has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Kuwait	United Arab Emirates	Difference	Ahead
2000s	2.4%	2.7%	0.3%	United Arab Emirates
2010s	3.7%	3.8%	0.1%	United Arab Emirates
2020s	5.2%	5.2%	0.0%	United Arab Emirates

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher current health expenditure, Kuwait or United Arab Emirates?: United Arab Emirates, at 5.0% against 5.0% in Kuwait as of 2023.
What is the difference in current health expenditure between Kuwait and United Arab Emirates?: 0.0%, with United Arab Emirates ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and United Arab Emirates?: 24 years are reported by both, from 2000 to 2023.
How do Kuwait and United Arab Emirates rank globally for current health expenditure?: Kuwait ranks 128th and United Arab Emirates ranks 127th of 193 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), published as Current health expenditure (% of GDP). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Kuwait vs United Arab Emirates: Current health expenditure. Statizoid, drawing on Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO). Retrieved 16 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/current-health-expenditure-percent-of-gdp/kuwait/united-arab-emirates/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/current-health-expenditure-percent-of-gdp/kuwait/united-arab-emirates/">Kuwait vs United Arab Emirates: Current health expenditure</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Current health expenditure (% of GDP)
Unit: % of GDP
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 240 places, 5,692 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed: 03 September 2026

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.