Data · Education & health
Current health expenditure (% of GDP): Vietnam, 2000–2023
- Latest (2023)
- 4.56 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks.
What the series shows
The series runs from 2000 to 2023 (24 years of data). It moved from 4.11 to 4.56 % GDP, a change of 11.0%. The highest value was 5.07 in 2010 and the lowest 3.87 in 2002. 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 (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.56 |
| 2022 | 4.54 |
| 2021 | 4.54 |
| 2020 | 4.33 |
| 2019 | 4.97 |
| 2018 | 5.03 |
| 2017 | 4.99 |
| 2016 | 4.87 |
| 2015 | 4.71 |
| 2014 | 4.69 |
| 2013 | 4.41 |
| 2012 | 5.00 |
| 2011 | 4.97 |
| 2010 | 5.07 |
| 2009 | 4.49 |
| 2008 | 4.36 |
| 2007 | 4.63 |
| 2006 | 4.57 |
| 2005 | 4.32 |
| 2004 | 4.09 |
| 2003 | 3.94 |
| 2002 | 3.87 |
| 2001 | 4.80 |
| 2000 | 4.11 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2023 | 4.56 |
| Thailand | 2023 | 4.54 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 2.70 |
| Malaysia | 2023 | 3.96 |
| Philippines | 2023 | 5.10 |
| Singapore | 2023 | 4.49 |
| Cambodia | 2023 | 4.62 |
| Laos | 2023 | 1.33 |
| Myanmar | 2023 | 4.46 |
| China | 2023 | 5.94 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Current health expenditure (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.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_chex_gd_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.