Current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP (%)

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8.71%

Iceland · 2023

Current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP in Iceland (%) was 8.71% in 2023 (WHO).

Original source

Publisher: WHO
Authority tier: T1 Official
Report: WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP
Locator: GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011: {"SpatialDim":"ISL","SpatialDimType":"COUNTRY","TimeDim":"2023"}
Retrieved: 2 Oct 2026
Status: Verified

Dataset evidence (generated description)

Dataset evidence (generated): GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011, IS, 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31: 8.70510101 percent (scale 1).

Checked: the figure 8.71%matches the queried row in the pinned dataset response. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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World Health Organization. (2023). WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW

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MLA: World Health Organization. "WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP." 2023, https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW.
Chicago: World Health Organization. "WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP." 2023. https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27. Accessed October 2, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW.
BibTeX: @misc{who2023currentbreqkw, author = {{World Health Organization}}, title = {WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW}, note = {Original source: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/GHED\_CHEGDP\_SHA2011?\$filter=SpatialDimType\%20eq\%20\%27COUNTRY\%27. Accessed October 2, 2026.} }

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Primary source

Publisher: World Health Organization · homepage ↗
Authority tier: Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report: WHO current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of GDP
Type: Dataset
Evidence: Dataset response (generated description)
Dataset: GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011
Version: 2025-12-05
Methodology: Publisher methodology ↗
Response SHA-256: 6171093fed15030faaac114f5202f20ab0cc02bd46a9a0d03096e37873a2c795
Response retrieved: 2 October 2026
Published: —
Locator: GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011: {"SpatialDim":"ISL","SpatialDimType":"COUNTRY","TimeDim":"2023"}
Retrieved: 2 October 2026
Link status: Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence: See source

Verification

Status: Verified
Review protocol: dataset:raw-row-check-v1
Checked on: 2 October 2026
Last revision: 4 October 2026
Permanent URL: /stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW

Same indicator, other countries

2023 figures for the same indicator, ranked highest first.

Country or region	Value	Source	Details
Tuvalu	27.1%	WHO	Open record
Nauru	18.2%	WHO	Open record
United States	16.7%	WHO	Open record
Afghanistan	15%	WHO	Open record
Marshall Islands	13.4%	WHO	Open record
Liberia	13%	WHO	Open record
Micronesia, Federated States of	12.9%	WHO	Open record
Lesotho	12.6%	WHO	Open record
Germany	11.7%	WHO	Open record
Switzerland	11.7%	WHO	Open record
South Sudan	11.6%	WHO	Open record
France	11.5%	WHO	Open record
Canada	11.2%	WHO	Open record
Austria	11.2%	WHO	Open record
Sweden	11.2%	WHO	Open record

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Record last modified 4 October 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_B80BXN28ZT28BC9XEYB7BREQKW.