WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

read at 2023 · 3 years old

Total spending on healthcare — public and private — as a share of GDP.

World median

6.34% of GDP

Countries reporting

192/ 217

Observations, all years

4.6k

The median is computed across the 192 countries reporting in 2023 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.

How the world is spread · 2023

3 countries between 1.33 and 2.25 % of GDP16 countries between 2.25 and 3.17 % of GDP21 countries between 3.17 and 4.09 % of GDP28 countries between 4.09 and 5.01 % of GDP19 countries between 5.01 and 5.93 % of GDP18 countries between 5.93 and 6.85 % of GDP23 countries between 6.85 and 7.77 % of GDP15 countries between 7.77 and 8.69 % of GDP17 countries between 8.69 and 9.61 % of GDP10 countries between 9.61 and 10.53 % of GDP10 countries between 10.53 and 11.45 % of GDP4 countries between 11.45 and 12.37 % of GDP3 countries between 12.37 and 13.29 % of GDP1 country between 13.29 and 14.21 % of GDP1 country between 14.21 and 15.13 % of GDP1 country between 16.05 and 16.97 % of GDP1 country between 17.89 and 18.81 % of GDP1 country between 26.17 and 27.09 % of GDPMEDIAN1.3327.09
192 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 2.52 % of GDP

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2172000: 184 of 217 countries reported2001: 184 of 217 countries reported2002: 185 of 217 countries reported2003: 187 of 217 countries reported2004: 187 of 217 countries reported2005: 187 of 217 countries reported2006: 187 of 217 countries reported2007: 187 of 217 countries reported2008: 187 of 217 countries reported2009: 187 of 217 countries reported2010: 188 of 217 countries reported2011: 189 of 217 countries reported2012: 189 of 217 countries reported2013: 191 of 217 countries reported2014: 191 of 217 countries reported2015: 191 of 217 countries reported2016: 191 of 217 countries reported2017: 192 of 217 countries reported2018: 193 of 217 countries reported2019: 193 of 217 countries reported2020: 193 of 217 countries reported2021: 193 of 217 countries reported2022: 192 of 217 countries reported2023: 192 of 217 countries reported2024: 22 of 217 countries reported20002024
Best year 2018 with 193 of 217 · most recent 2024 with 22. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2023

Tuvalu27.09
Naoero18.21
United States16.69
Afghanistan14.99
Marshall Islands13.41
Liberia13.01
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.12.88
Lesotho12.61

Lowest · 2023

Lao PDR1.33
Bangladesh2.17
Brunei Darussalam2.23
Djibouti2.28
Guyana2.47
Pakistan2.52
Qatar2.52
Angola2.55

Read with care

  • · Deliberately unscored: spending measures effort and cost, not health outcomes. The highest-spending countries are not the healthiest.
  • · Says nothing about who pays; a high figure can reflect heavy out-of-pocket burdens on households.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →