Benin Health Spending

Benin’s health spending as a share of GDP was recorded at 3.30 percent in 2025, ranking the country 165th globally, according to World Bank data spanning 25 years. This level remains below Benin’s all-time peak of 3.67 percent reached in 2017, which marked a high point amid gradual improvements following the trough of 2.65 percent in 2008. Over the period from 2000, when spending stood at 2.96 percent, Benin has shown modest expansion in health investment, though progress has been uneven. In comparative terms, Benin’s 2025 figure sits just beneath Guinea’s 3.50 percent and slightly above Equatorial Guinea’s 3.19 percent, reflecting a regional pattern of constrained public health financing. Despite incremental gains, spending remains low relative to global benchmarks for adequate health system funding. The trajectory suggests that without stronger fiscal prioritization, expanded domestic resource mobilization, or increased donor support, Benin is likely to maintain a slow pace of growth in health expenditure, limiting its ability to strengthen health infrastructure and achieve universal health coverage in the coming decade.