Health Care Spending
In Twenty-Three Countries -
Selected Years 1960-1998

Health Care Spending In Twenty-Three Countries Selected Years 1960-1998

Total health spending per capita

Spending as percent of GDP

1960

1990

1998

1960

1990

1998

Australia	517	1647	2040	4.9%	8.2%	8.7%
Austria	352	1503	2000	4.3	7.2	8.3
Belgium	292	1556	1850	3.4	7.5	7.6
Canada	600	2115	2250	5.4	9.2	9.3
Czech Republic		717	950		5.4	7.2
Denmark	369	1777	2100	3.6	8.3	8.0
Finland	297	1612	1600	3.9	8.0	7.4
France	396	1920	2120	4.2	8.9	9.6
Germany	495	1999	2400	4.8	8.7	10.6
Greece	116	876	1270	3.1	7.6	8.7

Iceland	275	1714	2190	3.3	7.9	8.3
Ireland	193	947	1390	3.8	6.7	6.1
Italy	270	1648	1660	3.6	8.1	7.6
Japan	143	1350	1780	3.0	6.1	7.4
Luxembourg		1865	2440		6.6	7.0
Netherlands	369	1654	2030	3.8	8.3	8.6
New Zealand	495	1169	1440	4.3	7.0	8.0
Norway	253	1703	2090	2.9	7.8	7.5
Spain	77	1017	1240	1.5	6.9	7.5
Sweden	490	1861	1820	4.7	8.8	8.6

Switzerland	479	2196	2740	3.1	8.3	10.2
United Kingdom	407	1191	1450	3.9	6.0	6.9
United States	820	3491	4270	5.2	12.6	14.0
OECD median	369	1648	2000	3.8	7.9	8.0

In 1998 U.S. dollars, adjusted by purchasing power parities (PPPs)

SOURCE: OECD Health Data 99 (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1999) and subsequent updates.

NOTE: GDP is gross domestic product. Source: "Health Spending and Outcomes: Trends in OECD Countries, 1960-1998" by Anderson G. F. et al. in Health Affairs May/June 2000, volume 19, number 3, 150-157

Health watch

Index of Website

Home Page