How Much Does Health Care Cost?

Discover everything about the financial aspect of healthcare around the world.

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Background

It’s no secret that although unavoidable, healthcare costs a lot of money. Different countries, however, adopt different practices regarding healthcare funding. Some governments receive special funding for assisting their citizens with the necessary healthcare, some countries pay large amounts out of the budget for funding healthcare, and in some other countries, individuals cover most of their health expenses. It would be useful if we could visualize and get a snapshot of current state of healthcare funding in the world. This website is your tool to get answers for questions related to healthcare funding in different countries around the world. It will enable you to do the following:

  • Make use of the interactive charts to derive visual information about the financial aid received and the healthcare expenditure per capita in the country of your interest. countries, to understand where the governments take larger measures in hand for ensuring the health of the citizens.

  • Find out the top 20 countries in receiving funding and spending in healthcare each year.

  • Compare the amounts of health expenditure (out of GDP) and out -of-pocket-spending for health in different countries.

  • Find out the number of beds in hospitals per 1000 people in each country, to get an understanding of how well-equipped and prepared for large-scale pandemics each government is.

  • Finally, check the changes of life expectancy rates across years in different countries, and compare different countries concerning the same.

Does Financial Aid Governments Receive Contribute to People's health?

When a country accepted more aid, does the amount of health spending also increase? We collect data from the World Bank, and you can check it by clicking the country on the map. Later, the 2 line charts on the right will show you the amount of received financial aid and the health expenditure per capita from 2008 to 2018 for the country you select.

Hint: The map itself is color encoded using the death rate, you will see at the bottom the country name and death rate by hovering over. For the line charts, hovering overcan see the exact amount every year.

World's Health Financial Situation at Glance

Select the year from the dropdown button to view the top 20 countries that received the most general financial aid, and another 20 nations have the highest health expenditure per capita per country in USD.

Financial aid received

Health expenditure per capital

Health Care Spending by Governments (GDP) vs Individuals (Out of Pocket Expenses)

Select up to 5 countries and click on plot to compare the spendings of the goverment out of GDP on healthcare on the first plot, and the amount each individual spends on the second

How Many Hospital Beds are there per 10,000 People in Each Country?

Number of hospital beds per 10,000 people in a country is an important indicator to access the infrastructure of a country. Thus we could look for possible correlation between funding received by a country and improvement in health infrastructure. Besides that, we could also visually analyse the relationship between other health infrastructures and health indicators and compare different countries in infrastructure.

How has Life Expectancy Changed over the years?

Select countries from list below to view life expectancies changes across years. Life expectancy at birth is an important health indicator. Using the previous and following charts, when used in conjunction, could help us access if countries with lower life expectancy are spending more or less money on healthcare, among other things.

To select multiple countries use CTRL/CMD+Click.