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For over a decade, this report has provided policymakers with critical information on current and future health financing and spending. Our most recent edition, Financing Global Health 2021, expands on, and adds new estimates to, topics like pandemic preparedness, future health spending, and development assistance for health.

What’s new in FGH 2021?

Estimates of pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) spending
We present retrospective estimates of DAH for PPR from 1990 to 2021. We also look ahead at the next five years – to 2026 – and forecast the availability of DAH as it relates to the need estimates published by the G20’s High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on pandemic preparedness.
Revised future health spending projections to 2050
We have updated our projections of future health spending for 204 countries to 2050, assuming historical spending patterns and relationships persist. We observe that the wide disparities in health spending between low- and high-income countries are expected to persist into the future.
Updated disease spending profiles
Initially introduced in 2019, the profiles allow stakeholders to easily access information on a number of health focus areas. This year’s profiles highlight the continued support for the health-related pandemic response as well as growth and declines in support for some health focus areas

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Citation

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Financing Global Health 2021: Global Health Priorities in a Time of Change. Seattle, WA: IHME, 2023.

Authors

Angela Apeagyei (Micah),
Joseph Dieleman,
Kevin O'Rourke,
Kayleigh Bhangdia,
Ian Cogswell,
Simon Hay,
Dylan Lasher,
Brendan Lidral-Porter,
Emilie Maddison,
Christopher J.L. Murray,
Trang Nguyen,
Shuhei Nomura,
Nishali Patel,
Paola Pedroza,
Juan Solorio,
Hayley Stutzman,
Golsum Tsakalos,
Wayne Wang,
Wesley Warriner,
Yingxi Zhao,
Bianca Zlavog

Supporting documents

Methods Annex

Table 1: Development assistance for health targeting COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 by channel and type of assistance

Table 2: Total health spending and health spending by source, 2019

Table 3: Development assistance for health by World Bank income group and GBD super-region, 1990–2019

Table 4: Development assistance for health by source of funding, 1990–2021 Table 5: Development assistance for health by health focus area and program area, 1990–2021

Table 6: Total health spending by World Bank income group, GBD super-region, and country, 2020 and 2050

Datasets

All our datasets are housed in our data catalog, the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx). Visit the GHDx to download data from this article.