EU countries spent €90.4 billion on preventive health care in 2022, which was the last full calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventive health care expenditure in the EU was equivalent to 0.57% of GDP in 2022.
This information is part of the online publication Health in the European Union and, more specifically, is part of the domain of healthcare expenditure statistics. It presents key statistics on preventive healthcare expenditure in the European Union (EU) for the reference year 2022.
With the release of 2022 data, the data in the article relates information on preventive healthcare expenditure during the final full calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventive healthcare expenditure in the EU was 76.3% higher in current price terms in 2022 than in 2020. Relative to GDP, preventive healthcare expenditure increased from 0.38% of GDP in 2020 to 0.66% in 2021 and then fell slightly back to 0.57% in 2022. This reflects the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular for the category of immunisation programmes (which includes vaccination campaigns). The aggregated expenditure of the 19 EU countries which provided separate data on such programmes for 2020 22 increased greatly: in 2021, it was 335% higher than in 2020, while it was still 317% higher in 2022 than in 2020. Consequently, the share of immunisation programmes in the overall expenditure on preventive healthcare increased from 13.6% in 2020 to 28.2% in 2021 and 28.0% in 2022.
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