Press release No. 136 of 5 April 2023
- Health expenditure up 7.5% from first Covid year 2020
- Increase mostly due to coronavirus testing and vaccination campaign: testing accounted for 9.9 billion euros, vaccination centres and vaccine doses for 7.0 billion euros
- Further increase in expenditure by 5.1% to just under 500 billion euros estimated for 2022
WIESBADEN – Health expenditure in Germany rose to 474.1 billion euros in the second Covid year of 2021. That was 5,699 euros per inhabitant. Health expenditure per capita and total health expenditure were up by 7.5% from a year earlier, which is the largest increase since calculations started in 1992. To mark World Health Day on 7 April 2023, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that health expenditure in 2021 was 33.1 billion euros higher than in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. In 2021, health expenditure accounted for 13.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP). This proportion was by 0.2 percentage points higher than in 2020.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables "23611 Health expenditure" in the GENESIS-Online database.
