Data · Education & health
Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure): Vietnam, 2000–2023
- Latest (2023)
- 39.2 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Share of out-of-pocket payments of total current health expenditures. Out-of-pocket payments are spending on health directly out-of-pocket by households.
What the series shows
The series runs from 2000 to 2023 (24 years of data). It moved from 34.6 to 39.2 %, a change of 13.4%. The highest value was 45.1 in 2019 and the lowest 29.7 in 2001. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | 40.5 |
| 2020 | 42.4 |
| 2019 | 45.1 |
| 2018 | 44.6 |
| 2017 | 42.6 |
| 2016 | 41.4 |
| 2015 | 42.1 |
| 2014 | 41.0 |
| 2013 | 41.6 |
| 2012 | 40.8 |
| 2011 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 34.7 |
| 2009 | 34.6 |
| 2008 | 34.6 |
| 2007 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 34.7 |
| 2003 | 34.5 |
| 2002 | 34.5 |
| 2001 | 29.7 |
| 2000 | 34.6 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2023 | 39.2 |
| Thailand | 2023 | 9.9 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 31.1 |
| Malaysia | 2023 | 37.1 |
| Philippines | 2023 | 44.4 |
| Singapore | 2023 | 25.4 |
| Cambodia | 2023 | 60.6 |
| Laos | 2023 | 44.8 |
| Myanmar | 2023 | 71.1 |
| China | 2023 | 32.2 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sh_xpd_oopc_ch_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.