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Current health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in Vietnam from 2010 to 2021

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April 2024

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Region

Vietnam

Survey time period

2010 to 2021

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP estimates of current health expenditures, including 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.

The source did not provide a date of publication. The date used here is the date of last update.

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In 2021, current health expenditure accounted for **** percent of the GDP in Vietnam. The current health expenditure covers the preventive and curative provision of health services, family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health.

Health expenditure in Vietnam

In general, health expenditure in Vietnam is comparable to countries with similar income levels. However, health spending per capita in Vietnam has been increasing significantly, rising from under **** U.S. dollars in 2010 to above U.S. dollars in 2021. The rise came from domestic government spending on health as well as social insurance expenditure. In recent years, domestic health expenditure has been accounting for most of the current health expenditure in the country. Health insurance in Vietnam

In 2021, health insurance expenditure in Vietnam amounted to about **** trillion Vietnamese dong. The number of people participating in health insurance in Vietnam reached approximately ** million in that year, indicating a steady increase in the past years. As of 2020, the poor, the ethnic minorities as well as under 6-year-old and above 80-year-old were fully covered by social health insurance through government full subsidies.