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Health expenditure, private (% of total health expenditure) by country

World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database (see http://apps.who.int/nha/database for the most recent updates).

Countries reporting
53
Highest
82.0%
Sierra Leone
Lowest
7.9%
Seychelles
Median
47.8%
Years covered
17
1995–2011
Data points
980

What the numbers show

Health expenditure, private (% of total health expenditure) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 82.0% in Sierra Leone; the lowest is 7.9% in Seychelles.

The median across all reporting countries is 47.8%, and the mean is 50.0%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 149.2%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 52.8%).

Health expenditure, private: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Sierra Leone 82.0% 2011 up 8.8% flat
2 Uganda 73.7% 2011 up 1.4% rising
3 Côte d'Ivoire 73.4% 2011 down 3.2% flat
4 Guinea-Bissau 73.2% 2011 down 19.1% flat
5 Chad 72.9% 2011 up 21.0% rising
6 Guinea 72.7% 2011 down 8.7% falling
7 Sudan 71.6% 2011 down 0.8% falling
8 Cameroon 68.9% 2011 down 9.3% falling
9 Liberia 68.4% 2011 down 7.9% flat
10 Burundi 67.4% 2011 up 2.1% flat
11 Sao Tome and Principe 66.8% 2011 up 5.8% rising
12 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 66.3% 2011 down 30.0% falling
13 Morocco 65.7% 2011 down 3.2% falling
14 Nigeria 63.3% 2011 down 7.8% falling
15 Zimbabwe 61.6% 2001 up 149.2% rising
16 Tanzania, United Republic of 60.5% 2011 up 10.9% falling
17 Kenya 60.4% 2011 up 9.4% flat
18 Mauritius 59.7% 2011 up 24.0% rising
19 Egypt 59.5% 2011 unchanged flat
20 Mozambique 58.3% 2011 up 96.3% rising
21 Somalia 55.4% 2001 down 2.0% flat
22 Mali 54.6% 2011 down 0.9% falling
23 South Africa 52.3% 2011 down 12.3% falling
24 Eritrea 51.2% 2011 down 16.4% falling
25 Burkina Faso 49.7% 2011 down 20.6% falling
26 Central African Republic 48.1% 2011 down 8.4% falling
27 Togo 47.8% 2011 down 37.2% falling
28 Benin 46.7% 2011 down 7.9% falling
29 Gabon 46.5% 2011 down 19.7% falling
30 Gambia 46.0% 2011 down 20.9% falling
31 Tunisia 44.9% 2011 down 3.3% flat
32 Niger 44.9% 2011 down 16.9% falling
33 Ghana 43.9% 2011 up 2.1% falling
34 Rwanda 43.3% 2011 down 15.4% falling
35 Namibia 42.9% 2011 down 2.0% rising
36 Ethiopia 42.3% 2011 down 1.4% falling
37 Comoros 42.2% 2011 down 33.0% flat
38 Senegal 41.7% 2011 down 33.7% falling
39 Zambia 40.2% 2011 down 6.6% flat
40 Mauritania 39.4% 2011 down 1.5% falling
41 Botswana 39.2% 2011 up 40.8% falling
42 Angola 38.5% 2011 down 9.2% falling
43 Madagascar 36.9% 2011 up 20.0% falling
44 Equatorial Guinea 33.8% 2011 down 15.8% falling
45 Congo 32.8% 2011 down 27.4% flat
46 Djibouti 31.9% 2011 down 9.2% falling
47 Libya 31.2% 2011 down 28.5% falling
48 Eswatini 30.6% 2011 down 29.6% falling
49 Malawi 26.6% 2011 down 52.8% falling
50 Lesotho 25.9% 2011 down 38.2% falling
51 Cape Verde 24.9% 2011 up 1.4% rising
52 Algeria 19.2% 2011 down 14.8% falling
53 Seychelles 7.9% 2011 down 46.6% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Health expenditure, private (% of total health expenditure)
Unit
% of total health expenditure
Source
World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database (see http://apps.who.int/nha/database for the most recent updates)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
59 places, 980 data points, 1995–2011
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World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database (see http://apps.who.int/nha/database for the most recent updates).