
Public healthcare expenditure in Italy 2002-2021
private expenditure on healthcare grew steadily in recent years, reaching nearly 40 billion euros in 2020. This brought the annual healthcare expenditure (public and private combined) to 9.5 percent of the country’s GDP in 2021.
Public healthcare expenditure in Italy increased steadily in the last two decades. This figure stood at approximately 80 billion euros in 2002, whereas it exceeded 127 billion euros as of 2021. Similarly,