Which has higher total healthcare spending as a share of gdp, Kuwait or United Arab Emirates?

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

What is the difference in total healthcare spending as a share of gdp 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?

World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Kuwait vs United Arab Emirates: Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP

Kuwait

5.0%

in 2023

United Arab Emirates

5.0%

in 2023

Kuwait rank

129th

United Arab Emirates rank

128th

Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP 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 129th and United Arab Emirates ranks 128th of 195 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 total healthcare spending as a share of gdp, Kuwait or United Arab Emirates?: United Arab Emirates, at 5.0% against 5.0% in Kuwait as of 2023.
What is the difference in total healthcare spending as a share of gdp 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 total healthcare spending as a share of gdp?: Kuwait ranks 129th and United Arab Emirates ranks 128th of 195 countries.
Where does this data come from?: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Total healthcare spending as a share 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: Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP. Statizoid, drawing on World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 12 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/total-healthcare-expenditure-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 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/total-healthcare-expenditure-gdp/kuwait/united-arab-emirates/">Kuwait vs United Arab Emirates: Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Total healthcare spending as a share of GDP
Unit: %
Source: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 195 places, 4,588 data points, 2000–2023
Last refreshed: 27 August 2026

Total healthcare expenditure as the share of national gross domestic product (GDP).