Private health expenditure as a percentage of GDP rose 1.31% to 2.31% in Italy in 2017, according to World Bank / WHO.
Historically, private health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Italy reached an all time high of 2.31% in 2017 and an all time low of 1.26% in 1988. When compared to Italy's main peers, private health expenditure as a percentage of GDP in Austria amounted to 2.65%, 1.95% in France, 2.16% in Slovenia and 4.56% in Switzerland in 2017.
Italy has been ranked 13th within the group of 33 countries we follow in terms of private health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 118 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
| Private Health Expenditure (As % of GDP) | Unit | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Austria | % | 2.55% | 2.67% | 2.68% | 2.70% | 2.68% | ||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | % | 2.58% | 2.70% | 2.71% | 2.25% | 2.18% | ||||||||||||||||
| Croatia | % | 1.56% | 1.45% | 1.46% | 1.28% | ... | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| France | % | 2.61% | 2.63% | 2.62% | 2.73% | 2.69% | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | % | 2.64% | 2.62% | 2.62% | 1.71% | 1.74% | ||||||||||||||||
| Hungary | % | 2.91% | 2.98% | 2.93% | 2.33% | 2.36% | ||||||||||||||||
| Italy | % | 2.12% | 2.08% | 2.00% | 2.19% | 2.28% | ||||||||||||||||
| Slovenia | % | 2.40% | 2.67% | 2.60% | 2.46% | 2.40% | ||||||||||||||||
| Spain | % | 2.51% | 2.63% | 2.63% | 2.67% | 2.62% | ||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | % | 3.83% | 3.91% | 3.90% | 4.23% | 4.36% |
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