Financing Global Health 2023: The Future of Health Financing in the Post-Pandemic Era

Published May 14, 2024

Explore by health focus area

HIV/AIDS

map showing development assistance for health received per person for HIV/AIDS in 2022

Funding for HIV/AIDS reached an all-time high of $14.1 billion in 2023.

Malaria

chart showing development assistance for health for malaria from 1990 to 2023

Development assistance for malaria amounted to $3.3 billion in 2023.

Non-communicable diseases

chart showing development assistance for health for non-communicable diseases from 1990 to 2023

Development assistance for NCDs dropped by 34.4% between 2020 and 2023.

Maternal and child health

chart showing development assistance for health for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health from 1990 to 2023

Over the last decade, development assistance for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health has grown by 18.2%.

Pandemic preparedness

map showing development assistance for health received per person for pandemic preparedness and response in 2022

Development assistance for health for pandemic preparedness and response peaked in 2020 at over $1 billion.

Tuberculosis

chart showing development assistance for health for tuberculosis in 2023

Development assistance for tuberculosis dropped by 3.3% between 2017 and 2021, but rose again in 2022 to $2.6 billion.

What's new in FGH 2023?

IHME has been publishing Financing Global Health since 2009. Here is what is
new in this year’s report:

  • New estimates of development assistance for health
    IHME provides estimates of development assistance for health through 2023, showing how trends have changed since the height of the COVID-19 public health emergency in 2020 and 2021.
  • A look at countries’ debt following the COVID-19 pandemic
    During the pandemic, many countries’ debt increased as they borrowed money to help their people weather economic hardship and get vaccinated against COVID-19.
  • Improved forecasts of health spending through 2030
    IHME has updated its forecasts of development assistance for health, government health spending, and total health spending based on factors including countries’ debt and changing priorities. 

Citation

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Financing Global Health 2023: The Future of Health Financing in the Post-Pandemic Era. Seattle, WA: IHME, 2024.

Supporting documents

Methods Annex
(9.83 MB)
Interactive data visual

View trends in health financing

Use interactive bar charts, maps, and line graphs to explore patterns of global health financing flows from 1990 to 2050.

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