Health expenditure

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5 April 2023 Health expenditure exceeded 474 billion euros in 2021

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.

21 June 2022 Health expenditure in 2020: financing from government transfers and subsidies rose to 15.7%

7 April 2022 Health expenditure exceeded 440 billion euros in 2020

6 April 2021 Health expenditure exceeded 400 billion euros in 2019

15 February 2018 Health expenditure per day exceeds one-billion threshold

21 February 2017 Health expenditure up 4.5% in 2015

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