Total health expenditure as share of GDP in Turkey 2000-2020

Health care spending in Turkey as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to 5 percent in 2020. In the years 2007 to 2009, health care spending peaked at 5.8 percent of GDP in Turkey but has fallen since then.

Health expenditure compared to Europe 

In comparison to other European countries in 2019, Turkey ranked very low in terms of health care spending as a share of the GDP. Top of the list was Switzerland, which spent 12.1 percent of its’ GDP on health care in this year. While Germany and France both spent over eleven percent on health. 

Interactions with the health system in Turkey

In 2019, roughly six in ten individuals had visited a general practitioner in the past 12 months, women were more likely than men to do so. Furthermore, a 2021 study found that 45 percent of those surveyed rated the quality of health care in Turkey as good, compared to 15 percent who rated it as poor.