In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had profound impacts on the health system, with public current expenditure increasing by 6.6%, which more than offset the negative variation in private current expenditure (-10.3%), determining a growth of 0.4% in total current expenditure on health, reaching 10.1% of GDP, the highest level since 2009.
As a result of the divergent behavior of public current expenditure and private current expenditure, the first corresponded to more than 2/3 of the total (67.6%), the highest proportion since 2010.

See also the infographic Health Expenditure in Portugal