Quoting the 15th Finance Commission and the National Health Policy, 2017, the Economic Survey recommended an increase in the government’s health expenditure from the existing 1.2 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2025. Central and states’ budgeted expenditure on the health sector reached 2.1 per cent of GDP in FY23 (BE) and 2.2 per cent in FY22 (RE), against 1.6 per cent in FY21, it noted. The share of expenditure on health in the total expenditure on social services has increased from 21 per cent in FY19 to 26 per cent in FY23 (BE).