Austria’s Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Health System Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Austria’s COVID-19 National Policy
Key Points Regarding Austria’s National Healthcare System
Demographics
Austria’s Population: 8,955,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More info here.
Coverage
Population Health Insurance Coverage (%): 99.9%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More info here.
Costs
Healthcare Expenditure as Percentage of GDP (%): 10.4%
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 info here.
Annual Healthcare Expenditure Per Capita (US$): $4,688
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 info here.
Annual Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita on Healthcare (Current USD) (2018): $978
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Jan. 12, 2021. More info here.
Outcomes
Health Care Ranking: 29
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 info here.
Austrian Life Expectancy: 81.8 Years
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 info here.
Infant Mortality in Austria (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births): 3
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 info here.
Doctors Per 10,000 Population in Austria: 51.4
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 info here.
Nurses Per 10,000 Population in Austria: 81.8
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 info here.
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Page last updated Oct. 11, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.
