NHS: Expenditure
(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of GDP has been spent on healthcare in each of the last five years.
The table below shows United Kingdom public spend on health as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2011-12 to 2015-16.
Year | UK public health spend £ billion | UK public spend on health as % of GDP |
2011-12 | 121.3 | 7.4% |
2012-13 | 124.3 | 7.4% |
2013-14 | 129.4 | 7.4% |
2014-15 | 134.1 | 7.3% |
2015-16 | 138.7 | 7.4% |
Source: Table 4.2/Table 4.4 HMT Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2016
Latest available data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that the estimated 2015 UK spend on health, both public and private, is 9.8% of GDP which is higher that the OECD average of 9.0%.