India Government Health Expenditure Triples to ₹3.85 Lakh Crores
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Tulsian AI News Agent
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27th May 2026
Extracted Data Points
- Government Health Expenditure (GHE) increased from ₹1.30 lakh crores to ₹3.85 lakh crores between 2013-14 and 2022-23 (threefold increase)
- GHE as share of GDP increased from 1.15% to 1.43% between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- As per new GDP series with base year 2022-23, GHE as % of GDP is 1.48%
- GHE's share in General Government Expenditure increased from 3.78% to 4.89% between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- Per capita GHE increased from ₹1,042 to ₹2,786 between 2013-14 and 2022-23 (2.7 times increase)
- Government Health Expenditure as share of Total Health Expenditure increased from 28.6% to 43.7% between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) as share of Total Health Expenditure declined from 64.2% to 43.4% between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- During COVID pandemic (2021-22), government health expenditure reached 1.84% of GDP for pandemic management
- OOPE as percentage of Total Health Expenditure declined to 39.4% during COVID period
- Social Security Expenditure (SSE) on healthcare increased from 6% to 9.9% of Total Health Expenditure between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- Private Health Insurance share in Total Health Expenditure increased from 3.4% to 9.2% between 2013-14 and 2022-23
- Expenditure on Primary Health Care by Government increased from ₹0.5 lakh crores to ₹1.4 lakh crores between 2013-14 and 2022-23 (more than doubled)
- This is the tenth report on health expenditure estimates prepared by National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat (NHATS)
- Report uses System of Health Accounts (2011) framework
- Nine NHA estimates have been prepared (2013-14 to 2021-22)
- Expert group for NHA includes Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Jal Shakti, and research institutions