Health at a Glance 2023
OECD Indicators
Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. These cover health status, risk factors for health, access to and quality of healthcare, and health system resources. Analysis draws from the latest comparable official national statistics and other sources.
Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, an overview chapter summarises the comparative performance of countries and major trends. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.
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Pharmaceutical expenditure
In 2021, spending on retail pharmaceuticals (that is, excluding those used during hospital stays and in other health facilities) accounted for one‑sixth of overall healthcare expenditure in OECD countries. While retail pharmaceuticals continued to represent the third largest component of health expenditure after inpatient and outpatient care, spending on these goods has increased at a slower pace than most other areas of the health system over the last decade (see section on “Health expenditure by type of service” in Chapter 7), due to cost-control measures and generic uptake.
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