Temporal Trends in Global Spending on Health and HIV/AIDS

Investigators assessed health spending for HIV/AIDS from 2000 to 2015 and domestic health spending from 1995 to 2015 in 188 countries. They also evaluated trends in development assistance for health from 1990 to 2017.

The analysis showed that health spending increased globally from 1995 to 2015. Of the $9.7 trillion spent in 2015, 66.3% ($6.5 trillion) was spent in high-income countries and 0.7% ($70.3 billion) was spent in low-income countries. In 2015, high-income countries spent $5,551 per person on health while low-income countries spent an average of $110 per capita on health.

Development assistance for health increased substantially from 1990, reaching $37.4 billion in 2017, one quarter of this (24.2% or $9.1 billion) being allocated to…