Statistics on

Health accounts

The municipal health care service statistics include information about general practitioners, physiotherapists, public health centres, school health services, healthy life centres, other preventive health care and expenditures.

Updated: 30 April 2026

Next update: Not yet determined

Selected figures from these statistics

Table 1Health Expenditure. Key Figures

Health Expenditure. Key Figures^{1 2}
	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Current health expenditure	339 948	356 241	375 450	395 456	424 360	453 401	473 828
Current health expenditure per capita	63 567	66 222	69 421	72 466	76 882	81 367	84 448
Health expenditure in constant 2015 prices	323 113	325 524	331 638	325 176	335 890	341 343	..
Current expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015. Percentage change in volume from the previous year	1	0.7	1.9	-1.9	3.3	1.6	..
Expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015 per capita	60 419	60 512	61 320	59 587	60 854	61 257	..
Expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015 per capita. Percentage change in volume from the previous year		0.2	1.3	-2.8	2.1	0.7	..

Current health expenditure financed by public sources	289 366	305 311	321 825	339 961	364 531	388 466	408 604
Current health expenditure financed by private sources	50 582	50 930	53 626	55 495	59 830	64 935	65 225

Share of health expenditure financed by public sources. Per cent	85.1	85.7	85.7	86.0	85.9	85.7	86.2
Share of health expenditure financed by private sources. Per cent	14.9	14.3	14.3	14.0	14.1	14.3	13.8
Public share of health spending in per cent of general government total expenditure	17.0	16.9	16.4	17.0	16.9	16.6	16.2

Current health expenditure. Per cent of GDP	9.1	9.9	8.4	6.7	8.0	8.4	8.6
Current health expenditure. Per cent of GDP Mainland Norway	10.6	11.1	10.9	10.2	10.6	10.8	10.8

Total capital formation of health care providers	20 915	23 068	28 413	31 259	35 175	38 241	46 132
¹Figures for the two last years are preliminary.
²Current health expenditure does not include capital formation