
Canadian Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Health System Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Canada COVID-19 National Policy
Demographics
Population: 37,411,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More information here.
Population Health Coverage (%): 100%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More information here.
Costs
Cost as Portion of GDP (%): 10.5%
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Heath Spending Per Capita (US$): $5,418
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Jan. 20, 2021. More information here.
Annual Household Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita (2018) (Current USD): $736
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Jan. 14, 2021. More information here.
Outcomes
Care Ranking: 7
Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5. More information here.
Life Expectancy: 82.8
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths per 1,000 Live Births): 4
Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York. More information here.
Healthcare Personnel
Doctors Per 10,000 Population: 26.1
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Nurses Per 10,000 Population: 99.1
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Useful Links
Health Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada.html
Statistics Canada: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/start
Center for Addiction and Mental Health: http://www.camh.ca/
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Page last updated Jan. 20, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.