Hong Kong's Health Bureau released the Domestic Health Accounts for 2024/25 on August 26, 2026, alongside revised figures for earlier years adjusted to international practice. Current Health Expenditure (CHE) was $262,513 million, an increase of 5.0 per cent ($12,491 million) over a year earlier. CHE was 8.2 per cent of GDP, similar to the previous year, and $34,890 per capita.
Public healthcare expenditure was $135,450 million, or 51.6 per cent of CHE, with public CHE at $18,000 per capita and 4.2 per cent of GDP. Private healthcare expenditure was $127,063 million, or 48.4 per cent of CHE and 3.9 per cent of GDP. The bureau said both CHE and public CHE as a share of GDP showed an upward trend in general over the past 10 years.
Primary healthcare accounted for 30.4 per cent of overall CHE in 2024/25, which the bureau described as progress toward the Primary Healthcare Blueprint's long-term aim of a better balance between primary and secondary/tertiary care, such as around 3.5:6.5 or even 4:6. The accounts follow the System of Health Accounts 2011 framework and are available on the bureau's website.



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