Health Budget Impact
National health outcomes layered over the Ministry of Health budget, to see whether changes in spending line up with changes in the statistics
Latest health budget
US$83.9M
Infant mortality
54
Under-5 mortality
74
Life expectancy
64.5
Health budget vs. infant mortality
Bars: Ministry of Health budget in US$ millions (left axis). Line: infant mortality /1,000 live births (right axis).
- Health budget (US$ M)
- Infant mortality
A year with no bar or no line point is a year the source publishes no figure for it — the two series do not cover exactly the same years.
Year by year: spending and outcomes
Each change is measured against the previous year the source published that figure
| Year | Health budget | Budget change | Infant mortality | Under-5 mortality | Maternal mortality | Life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2015 | — | — | 68 — | 92 — | 1,070 — | 61 — |
| FY 2016 | — | — | 66 -2 | 89 -3 | 1,040 -30 | 61.5 +0.5 |
| FY 2017 | — | — | 64 -2 | 86 -3 | 1,010 -30 | 61.8 +0.3 |
| FY 2018 | — | — | 63 -1 | 84 -2 | 990 -20 | 62.2 +0.4 |
| FY 2019 | — | — | 63 0 | 83 -1 | 980 -10 | 62.3 +0.1 |
| FY 2020 | US$38.0M MFDP National Budget / Civil Service Agency | — | 62 -1 | 82 -1 | 970 -10 | 62.5 +0.2 |
| FY 2021 | US$40.3M MFDP National Budget / Civil Service Agency | +6.0% | 60 -2 | 80 -2 | 940 -30 | 63 +0.5 |
| FY 2022 | US$42.7M MFDP National Budget / Civil Service Agency | +6.0% | — — | — — | — — | — — |
| FY 2023 | US$45.3M MFDP National Budget / Civil Service Agency | +6.0% | 56 -4 | 76 -4 | 880 -60 | 64 +1.0 |
| FY 2024 | US$48.0M MFDP National Budget / Civil Service Agency | +6.0% | 54 -2 | 74 -2 | 850 -30 | 64.5 +0.5 |
| FY 2026 | US$83.9M MFDP FY2026 National Budget / Consolidated Mid-Fiscal Year Review | +74.9% | — — | — — | — — | — — |
What the two series show together
The Ministry of Health budget rose 121% between FY2020 (US$38.0M) and FY2026 (US$83.9M). Over the same period, infant mortality fell from 62 (FY2020) to 54 (FY2024) /1,000 live births; under-5 mortality fell from 82 (FY2020) to 74 (FY2024) /1,000 live births; maternal mortality fell from 970 (FY2020) to 850 (FY2024) /100,000 live births; life expectancy rose from 62.5 (FY2020) to 64.5 (FY2024) years.
Spending rose in 5 of the 4 years carrying both a published budget and a mortality reading, and infant mortality fell in 4 of them. The movement runs in the direction extra funding would predict — but spending rose in every one of those years at a similar pace, so these figures cannot separate the budget's effect from donor programmes, income growth, population change and the lag between funding and services reaching patients.
Health budget: Ministry of Finance & Development Planning national budget allocations for the Ministry of Health. Outcomes: national health records sourced from the Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and LISGIS. FY2026 is a budget allocation rather than an outturn, and no FY2025 allocation is published in the platform's records.
Primary sources
- MoH
- — Ministry of Health: Health facility census, workforce, service delivery and health financing
- WHO
- — World Health Organization: Global Health Observatory: mortality, immunization and health-system estimates
- UNICEF
- — United Nations Children's Fund: Child health, nutrition and basic education indicators
- LISGIS
- — Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services: 2022 Population and Housing Census, consumer price index, external trade and household surveys
- World Bank
- — World Bank Group: World Development Indicators, Liberia Economic Update, debt and poverty statistics
Each figure above is attributed to the publishing institution and its reporting period. Derived and AI-generated forecasts are labelled separately from published data.