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Reading no. 2024/135

SocietyObserved data

Health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, Pacific

21.3% of GDP

Pacific

TuvaluNauruPalauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaNew ZealandKiribatiAustralia

Current health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, latest known year of each territory up to 2022: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. Tuvalu21.3
  2. Nauru18.3
  3. Palau14.9
  4. Marshall Islands13.6
  5. Micronesia12.6
  6. New Zealand10.6
  7. Kiribati10.5
  8. Australia9.9
  9. Tonga8.0
  10. Samoa6.9

The first territory of the ranking, Tuvalu, devotes to health the equivalent of 21.3% of its gross domestic product.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS, read for seventeen territories of the Pacific from 2018 to 2022. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2026/067 · 8 Mar45.5%Share of parliamentary seats held by women in the Pacific2025/067 · 8 Mar44.3%Share of parliamentary seats held by women in the Pacific2024/068 · 8 Mar50.4%Share of parliamentary seats held by women in the Pacific2026/112 · 22 Apr59.6%Share of protected land in the Pacific

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