Total Health Spending, USD PPP Per Capita (2019): $2,169.8

(Note: “Health spending measures the final consumption of health care goods and services (i.e. current health expenditure) including personal health care (curative care, rehabilitative care, long-term care, ancillary services and medical goods) and collective services (prevention and public health services as well as health administration), but excluding spending on investments. Health care is financed through a mix of financing arrangements including government spending and compulsory health insurance (“Government/compulsory”) as well as voluntary health insurance and private funds such as households’ out-of-pocket payments, NGOs and private corporations (“Voluntary”). This indicator is presented as a total and by type of financing (“Government/compulsory”, “Voluntary”, “Out-of-pocket”) and is measured as a share of GDP, as a share of total health spending and in USD per capita (using economy-wide PPPs).”

Source: OECD (2021), Health spending (indicator). doi: 10.1787/8643de7e-en (Accessed on 16 December 2021).

Current Health Expenditure Per Capita In US$ (2019): $1,062

Source: Global Health Observatory. Current health expenditure (CHE) per capita in US$. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed July 26, 2022.

Current Health Expenditure As Percentage Of Gross Domestic Product (2019): 6.35%

Source: Global Health Observatory. Current health expenditure (CHE) as percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) (%). Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed July 26, 2022.

Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure As Percentage Of Current Health Expenditure (2019): 28.16%

Source: Global Health Observatory. Out-of-pocket expenditure as percentage of current health expenditure (CHE) (%). Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed July 26, 2022.

Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure Per Capita In US$ (2019): $299.2

Source: Global Health Observatory. Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) per capita in US$. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed July 26, 2022.

Domestic General Government Health Expenditure as Percentage of General Government Expenditure (%) (2018): 9.9%
Population with household expenditures on health greater than 10% of total household expenditure or income (2011-2018) (%): NA
Population with household expenditures on health greater than 25% of total household expenditure or income (2009-2015) (%): NA

Source: World health statistics 2021: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Annual out-of-pocket payment, constant (2019) PPP per capita (USD) (2019): $607

Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Dec. 16, 2021.

Out-of-Pocket Spending as Share of Final Household Consumption, 2019: 3.8%

Source: OECD (2021), Health at a Glance 2021: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ae3016b9-en.

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