Market size · United Kingdom

Healthcare (United Kingdom)

Total healthcare expenditure in the UK, as the ONS health accounts report it.

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As its publishers state it

£345.0 bn2025 · Office for National Statistics · GBPNo outlook published by Office for National Statistics

As of Sep 30, 2026 · 9 figures carried · never averaged, never Forge’s.

How big this market is, as its publishers state it

as of Sep 30, 2026 · 9 figures carried

1 publisher carried, 2020–2025, no published outlook among them. Figures are the publishers' own, shown side by side and never averaged.

Last read Sep 30, 2026: wrote 2 figures, refused 3 already stored.

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Where its publishers say it is going

No publisher named for this market publishes an outlook past its observed years, so none is stated: the figures below are observed years only, and Forge projects nothing.

  • Office for National Statistics
Office for National StatisticsGBP · latest release 2026

Office for National Statistics: grew 6.0 % a year, 2020–2025, by its own figures.

YearFigureKindPublishedIn the publisher’s words
2020£257.6 bnhistory2022 (+1 earlier)Total current healthcare expenditure in the UK in 2020 was £257.6 billion, equating to £3,840 per person. source
2021£280.7 bnhistory2023 (+1 earlier)Total current healthcare expenditure in the UK in 2021 was £280.7 billion, equating to £4,188 per person. source
2022£283.0 bnhistory2023Our provisional estimates are that UK healthcare expenditure was around £283 billion in 2022, which is an increase in nominal terms of 0.7% from spending in 2021.As the read noted: Provisional figure for 2022; a later, more granular estimate may exist in the 2023and2024 or 2022and2023 bulletins but was not separately quoted as a total in the search results. source
2023£292.0 bnhistory2024Our provisional estimates are that UK healthcare expenditure was around £292 billion in 2023; these are based on more timely but less comprehensive data sources than preceding years. source
2024£320.3 bnhistory2026 (+1 earlier)Revised estimate 320.3 259.5 9.2 5.7 0.4 45.6 source
2025£345.0 bnhistory2026Our provisional estimates indicate that nominal UK healthcare expenditure was approximately £345 billion in 2025.As the read noted: Labeled by ONS as a provisional estimate, not a forward-looking forecast/projection, since 2025 had already ended by the April 2026 publication date. source

Healthcare elsewhere

The same industry as other publishers state it for their own place. Each figure is its publisher’s frame; none is compared with another.

Other markets in Europe

What else the yearly read measures in this region.

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