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What share of total health care expenditure is spent on preventive health care?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Spending on preventive and health programs, percent of current health care expenditure
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	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 (2019), AUT (2020), BEL (2020), BGR (2020), CHL (2020), HRV (2020), CYP (2020), CZE (2020), EST (2020), FIN (2020), FRA (2020), DEU (2020), GRC (2020), HUN (2020), ISR (2018), JPN (2019), LVA (2020), LTU (2020), LUX (2020), MEX (2020), NLD (2020), NZL (2007), NOR (2020), POL (2020), PRT (2020), ROU (2020), SVK (2020), SVN (2020), ESP (2020), SWE (2020), CHE (2020), TUR (2000), GBR (2020), USA (2020)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Health expenditure and financing URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted July 5th, 2022
Source 2:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	MLT
Exceptions:	MLT (2018)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Health care expenditure by function [hlth_sha11_hc] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted July 5th, 2022
Source 3:	SGI Estimate
Data for:

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	5.37
Minimum:	0
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Spending on Preventive Health

Denmark

10.0

8.83

South Korea

10.0

8.21

Italy

10.0

6.42

New Zealand

10.0

6.41

10.0

6.11

Canada

10.0

5.89

USA

10.0

5.88

Luxembourg

9.9

5.33

Ireland

9.3

4.97

Estonia

9.0

4.80

Upper middle group

Netherlands

8.6

4.55

Finland

8.2

4.32

Lithuania

7.5

3.90

Iceland

7.5

3.89

Czechia

7.3

3.75

Hungary

7.2

3.72

Switzerland

7.1

3.62

Austria

7.0

3.58

Sweden

6.6

3.32

Germany

6.4

3.21

Spain

6.3

3.17

Latvia

6.3

3.14

Croatia

6.1

3.07

Mexico

6.1

3.07

Slovenia

6.0

2.98

Lower middle group

Japan

5.9

2.95

France

5.8

2.85

Bulgaria

5.7

2.83

Norway

5.3

2.54

Turkey

5.0

2.41

Belgium

4.5

2.09

Australia

4.3

1.99

Romania

4.3

1.95

Poland

4.2

1.93

Portugal

4.2

1.89

Greece

4.0

1.80

Cyprus

3.8

1.65

Malta

3.2

1.30

Chile

3.0

1.21

Bottom group

Slovakia

2.7

1.03

Israel

1.6

0.36