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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Health expenditure in relation to GDP
The resources that a country allocates to healthcare compared to the size of the overall economy vary over time due to differences in both the growth of health spending and overall economic growth. During the 1990s and 2000s, OECD countries generally saw health spending outpace the rest of the economy, leading to an almost continual rise in the health expenditure to GDP ratio. After the volatility of the 2008 economic and financial crisis, the share remained relatively stable, as growth in health spending broadly matched overall economic performance across the OECD. The arrival of the COVID‑19 pandemic in 2020 with a severe slowdown in economic activity and rapidly increasing health spending led to a significant adjustment in the health expenditure to GDP ratio.
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