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Table 5 Health expenditure of each country

From: International comparison of the factors influencing reimbursement of targeted anti-cancer drugs

 

UK

Canada

Australia

Sweden

France

Japan

Korea

Taiwan

Germany

GDP per capita in US$ (2009)

34397

37773

39833

37255

33785

32061

26881

32214*

35643

Total expenditure on health (TEH), % of GDP (2009)

9.8

11.4

9.1

9.9

11.7

9.5

6.9

6.4*

11.7

Public expenditure on health, % of TEH (2009)

83.4

70.9

68.5

81.5

76.9

80.5

58.2

26.6*

76.9

Out-of-pocket expenditure (households) on health, % of TEH (2009)

9.1

14.2

18.6

16.4

7.4

16

32.4

38.1*

13

Pharmaceutical expenditure and other medical non-durables, % of TEH (2009)

11.8*

17

14.7

12.7

16.1

20.8

22.5

25*

14.9

Life expectancy of both sexes at birth in years (2009)

80.4

80.8*

81.6

81.4

81.1

83

80.4

79*

80.3

  1. Abbreviations: GDP gross domestic product, UK United Kingdom, US United States.
  2. Source: OECD website (except Taiwan) from http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA.
  3. For Taiwan, refers to 2012, Vol.3 , No1.
  4. *When the data for 2009 was not available, the relevant data from 2008 was used.