National Health Expenditures Summary (Aggregate, Per Capita, % of GDP)
Headline US National Health Expenditure aggregates from the CMS National Health Expenditure Accounts: total national health spending, health spending per capita, and health spending as a percent of GDP, plus the US GDP and population denominators. Total spending is a full annual series from 1960; the per-capita and %-of-GDP measures follow the CMS summary table's reported years. The authoritative measure of total US health-care spending, which runs near 18% of GDP. US-only; for cross-country health-spending shares use the health_systems schema.
In SQL, this dataset is the rows of cms_nhe.series with dataset_code = 'nhe_summary'.
Series
National Health Expenditures, Total
Millions of Dollars · Annual · Not seasonally adjusted · 1960 to 2023
National Health Expenditures as a Percent of GDP
Percent · Annual · Not seasonally adjusted · 1960 to 2024
National Health Expenditures per Capita
Dollars · Annual · Not seasonally adjusted · 1960 to 2024
U.S. Gross Domestic Product
Millions of Dollars · Annual · Not seasonally adjusted · 1960 to 2024
U.S. Population
Millions of Persons · Annual · Not seasonally adjusted · 1960 to 2024