The 2024 edition of the online database OECD Health Statistics will be released early July, in the new dissemination platform OECD Data Explorer.
The online database OECD Health Statistics 2023 has been released on July 3, 2023 .
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Based on the latest estimates, the average OECD health expenditure to GDP ratio declined from a peak of 9.7% at the height of the pandemic in 2021 to 9.2% in 2022.
The share of GDP going to health remains above the pre-pandemic level of 8.8% even if in 11 OECD countries the ratio in 2022 is expected to have fallen below 2019 pre-pandemic levels.
Looking at country level data, the health expenditure to GDP ratio remained by far the highest in the USA at 16.6% in 2022, followed by Germany at 12.7% and France at 12.1%. A further 14 high-income countries, including Canada and Japan, all spent more than 10% of their GDP on healthcare in 2022.
In many Central and Eastern European OECD countries, as well as in Latin American OECD countries, spending on health accounted for between 6 9% of their GDP. Finally health expenditure as a share of GDP was below 6% in Mexico, Luxembourg and Türkiye.
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Avoidable mortality
The OECD carries out work on health data and indicators to improve international comparisons and economic analyses of health systems. OECD Health Statistics and Health at a Glance are, respectively, the leading statistical database and publication for international comparisons of health and health systems. They help policy makers, researchers, journalists and citizens compare the performance of health systems across OECD and partner countries.
Health Expenditure: A System of Health Accounts (SHA)
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Health at a Glance
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The latest issues include Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, Health at a Glance: Europe 2022 - State of Health in the EU Cycle, and Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2022. Access the PDF versions or web books for those publications, and the full data sets through StatLinks, free of charge.
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