SGI 2022 | Sustainable Policies | Social Policies | Health

What is the share households spend out of pocket in total health care expenditure?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Household Out-of-pocket Expenses as Percentage of Current Health Care Expenditure
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	MLT
Exceptions:	MLT (2018)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Health care expenditure by financing scheme [hlth_sha11_hf] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurost… extracted July 5th, 2022
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2020), BEL (2020), BGR (2020), HRV (2020), CYP (2020), CZE (2020), FIN (2020), FRA (2020), GRC (2020), HUN (2020), ISR (2020), JPN (2020), LVA (2020), LUX (2020), MEX (2020), NLD (2020), NZL (2018), NOR (2020), ROU (2020), SVK (2020), SVN (2020), ESP (2020), CHE (2020), TUR (2020)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Health expenditure and financing URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted July 5th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	45.3575
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Household Out Of Pocket Expenses

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Upper middle group

Luxembourg

8.3

8.47

France

8.2

8.94

Netherlands

8.2

9.28

USA

8.0

9.94

Ireland

8.0

10.32

Croatia

7.9

10.45

Czechia

7.7

11.53

Germany

7.7

11.63

7.6

12.30

Denmark

7.5

12.38

Slovenia

7.5

12.39

Canada

7.5

12.60

New Zealand

7.4

12.91

Japan

7.4

13.31

Sweden

7.3

13.43

Norway

7.3

13.67

Cyprus

7.2

14.01

Iceland

7.1

14.81

Austria

6.9

15.43

Finland

6.8

16.36

Turkey

6.7

16.43

Belgium

6.7

16.45

Israel

6.6

17.14

Slovakia

6.3

18.68

Romania

6.2

19.03

Poland

6.1

19.56

Spain

6.1

19.62

Estonia

6.1

19.88

Lower middle group

Italy

5.7

21.76

Switzerland

5.6

21.97

Hungary

4.9

25.52

South Korea

4.7

26.56

Australia

4.3

28.50

Portugal

4.3

28.60

Lithuania

4.3

28.69

Chile

4.2

29.00

Latvia

3.6

32.25

Greece

3.4

33.44

Malta

3.2

34.30

Bottom group

Bulgaria

2.9

35.63

Mexico

2.3

38.77

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