2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report by WHO

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 The 2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the average per capita government spending on health in all country income groups fell in 2022 from 2021 after a surge in the early pandemic years. The report entitled, “Global spending on health Emerging from the pandemic” has been published in alignment with the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day campaign marked annually on 12 December. The campaign’s focus for 2024 is on improving financial protection for people everywhere to access health services they need.

Government spending on health is crucial to delivering UHC. Its deprioritization can have dire consequences in a context where 4.5 billion people worldwide lack access to basic health services and 2 billion people face financial hardship due to health costs.

“While access to health services has been improving globally, using those services is driving more and more people into financial hardship or poverty. Universal Health Coverage Day is a reminder that health for all means everyone can access the health services they need, without financial hardship,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

Who’s paying for healthcare?

Protecting people from financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health costs is fundamental to achieving health for all. Yet, WHO’s report shows that out-of-pocket spending remained the main source of health financing in 30 low- and lower middle-income countries. In 20 of these countries, more than half of total health spending in the country was paid for by patients out of their pocket, which contributes to the cycle of poverty and vulnerability.

The key to making better choices on future health investments is timely and reliable evidence on the level and pattern of health spending. For 25 years the WHO Health Expenditure Tracking programme  has had a major influence on how critical information on health spending is compiled and reported at the country level and globally.

Among its most notable achievements are the establishment of the Global Health Expenditure Database – the world’s richest source of health expenditure data covering more than 190 countries since 2000--and the Global Health Expenditure Report, which has been published annually since 2017. These global public goods drive informed policymaking, transparency and accountability worldwide.

WHO News

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