Image: Life expectancy vs healthcare spending

Description: Life expectancy compared to healthcare spending per capita from 1970 to 2014, in the US and the next 22 most wealthy countries. The definition of health spending given by the OECD is the following: “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 (“public”) as well as voluntary health insurance and private funds such as households’ out-of-pocket payments, NGOs and private corporations (“private”). This indicator is presented as a total and by type of financing (“public”, “private”, “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).”
Title: Life expectancy vs healthcare spending
Credit: Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. By Max Roser at OurWorldInData.org site. Click the sources tab for that chart to see the data sources. Click the data tab for a .CSV file.
Author: Max Roser
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