General government health expenditure (% of GDP) | Jamaica – yearly data, chart and table
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The general government health expenditure in Jamaica in 2022 was amounted to 5.93% of GDP. In 2021, the value was 5.12%. It has been growing in this country for already 4 years in a row. Since 2000, for the whole period of data from World Health Organization, this indicator has increased in 1.86 times. The lowest health spending was recorded in 2006, with a value of 2.00% of GDP. The highest general government health expenditure percent of GDP of Jamaica was in 2022, when it reached 5.93%.
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Public expenditure on health from domestic sources as a share of the economy as measured by GDP.
The Health SHA 2011 tracks all health spending in a given country over a defined period of time regardless of the entity or institution that financed and managed that spending. It generates consistent and comprehensive data on health spending in a country, which in turn can contribute to evidence-based policy-making. Statistical concept(s): The health expenditure estimates have been prepared by the World Health Organization under the framework of the System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011).
