{
  "id": "hea-ghe-086",
  "question": "How much does the government spend on health as a share of GDP?",
  "topic": "Health",
  "unit": "% of GDP",
  "decimals": 2,
  "measures": "Government health expenditure (spending under schemes funded and managed by Union, state and local governments, current and capital) as a share of GDP, from the Health Ministry's National Health Accounts. All years shown are on the old 2011-12 GDP series, as each edition published them; against the new 2022-23 GDP series, 2022-23 is 1.48%. The 2021-22 peak includes the one-time COVID-19 response (emergency packages and vaccination).",
  "verified": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2022-23",
    "url": "https://nhsrcindia.org/sites/default/files/2026-05/NHA%202022-23%20Report.pdf",
    "table": "NHA 2022-23 report, Table 3 (Key health financing indicators, NHA 2017-18 to 2022-23), row 6 (GHE as a percent of GDP; 2022-23 against the 2011-12 series, footnote 6) and row 6.1 (1.48 on the 2022-23 series); 2017-18 to 2021-22 also in NHA 2021-22 report Table 3; PIB release 27 May 2026",
    "licence": "GODL-India"
  },
  "released": "2026-05-27",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-20",
  "nextDueBy": "2027-07-26",
  "processing": "Copied as published.",
  "exam": {
    "publisher": "National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat (NHATS) at NHSRC, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare",
    "survey": "National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2022-23",
    "frequency": "Annual",
    "measures": "Government health expenditure (Union, state and local government, current and capital) as a share of GDP",
    "notes": [
      "Ratios are against the 2011-12 GDP series as published; the 2022-23 report adds 1.48% for 2022-23 on the new 2022-23 GDP series.",
      "National Health Policy 2017 target: government health expenditure of 2.5% of GDP by 2025, and states spending more than 8% of their budgets on health by 2020."
    ]
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "label": "National Health Policy 2017 target",
      "short": "NHP 2017",
      "value": 2.5,
      "by": "2025",
      "source": {
        "name": "Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health Policy 2017, para 2.4.3.1(a) (copy hosted by NHSRC)",
        "url": "https://www.nhsrcindia.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/National%20Health%20Policy%202017%20%28English%29%20.pdf"
      }
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "period": "2017-18",
      "start": "2017-04",
      "end": "2018-03",
      "value": 1.35
    },
    {
      "period": "2018-19",
      "start": "2018-04",
      "end": "2019-03",
      "value": 1.28
    },
    {
      "period": "2019-20",
      "start": "2019-04",
      "end": "2020-03",
      "value": 1.35
    },
    {
      "period": "2020-21",
      "start": "2020-04",
      "end": "2021-03",
      "value": 1.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-22",
      "start": "2021-04",
      "end": "2022-03",
      "value": 1.84
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-23",
      "start": "2022-04",
      "end": "2023-03",
      "value": 1.43
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://india.tf/c/hea-ghe-086/",
  "csv": "https://india.tf/c/hea-ghe-086/data.csv",
  "versions": "https://india.tf/c/hea-ghe-086/versions.csv"
}