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  "id": "health-spending",
  "name": "Health expenditure",
  "domain": "health",
  "provider": "worldbank",
  "code": "SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS",
  "unit": "% of GDP",
  "frequency": "Annual",
  "description": "Current health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product.",
  "caveat": "Higher spending is not necessarily better care. Excludes capital investment; compare with health outcomes.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locations=US",
  "decimals": 1,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2000-01-01",
      "value": 12.49002075
    },
    {
      "date": "2001-01-01",
      "value": 13.16817093
    },
    {
      "date": "2002-01-01",
      "value": 13.99535275
    },
    {
      "date": "2003-01-01",
      "value": 14.50557518
    },
    {
      "date": "2004-01-01",
      "value": 14.55123138
    },
    {
      "date": "2005-01-01",
      "value": 14.57946205
    },
    {
      "date": "2006-01-01",
      "value": 14.70878792
    },
    {
      "date": "2007-01-01",
      "value": 14.91832542
    },
    {
      "date": "2008-01-01",
      "value": 15.20723629
    },
    {
      "date": "2009-01-01",
      "value": 16.20067596
    },
    {
      "date": "2010-01-01",
      "value": 16.19722366
    },
    {
      "date": "2011-01-01",
      "value": 16.14000511
    },
    {
      "date": "2012-01-01",
      "value": 16.11975479
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-01-01",
      "value": 15.95227051
    },
    {
      "date": "2014-01-01",
      "value": 16.1415844
    },
    {
      "date": "2015-01-01",
      "value": 16.40155411
    },
    {
      "date": "2016-01-01",
      "value": 16.69203949
    },
    {
      "date": "2017-01-01",
      "value": 16.63827515
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-01-01",
      "value": 16.51312637
    },
    {
      "date": "2019-01-01",
      "value": 16.54486084
    },
    {
      "date": "2020-01-01",
      "value": 18.51597404
    },
    {
      "date": "2021-01-01",
      "value": 17.35207748
    },
    {
      "date": "2022-01-01",
      "value": 16.52875137
    },
    {
      "date": "2023-01-01",
      "value": 16.69414902
    }
  ],
  "sourceUnits": "",
  "sourceDefinition": "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.",
  "publisher": "Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://apps.who.int/nha/database",
  "sourceUpdated": "2026-07-13",
  "dataUrl": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/USA/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?date=2000:2026&format=json&per_page=100",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-04T09:04:46.416Z",
  "status": "available",
  "domainInfo": {
    "id": "health",
    "name": "Health & wellbeing",
    "color": "#b44569"
  }
}