Press release No. 167 of 6 April 2021
WIESBADEN – In 2019, health expenditure in Germany amounted to 410.8 billion euros, or 4,944 euros per inhabitant. To mark World Health Day on 7 April 2021, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that total health expenditure rose by 19.3 billion euros or 4.9% compared with 2018. Health expenditure passed the 400 billion euro threshold after having exceeded 300 billion euros only in 2012 and 200 billion euros in 1998. The time until the next 100 billion threshold is reached has thus halved since 1998 from 14 to 7 years. In 2019, health expenditure accounted for 11.9% of the gross domestic product. This proportion was by 0.2 percentage points higher than in 2018.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables "23611 Health expenditure" in the GENESIS-Online database.
