JANUARY

Table 2. Selected Health Care System Indicators for 17 Countries
Population,
2013
Spending,
2013
(unless
otherwise
noted)
Australia Canada China o Denmark France Germany Israel Italy Japan Netherlands
New
Zealand Norway Singapore Sweden Switzerland
United
Kingdom
United
States
Total population (millions) 23.132 35.317 1,360.720 5.615 63.790 80.646 8.057 60.233 127.296 16.804 4.472 5.080 5.312 g 9.600 8.089 64.107 316.129
Percentage of population over
age 65
Percentage of GDP spent on
health care
14.4% 15.2% 9.7% 17.8% 17.7% 21.1% 10.7% 21.0% 25.1% 16.8% 14.2% 15.6% 10.0% g 19.0% 17.3% 17.1% 14.1%
9.4% a 10.7% 5.4% 11.1% 11.6% 11.2% 7.4% b n/a 10.2% 11.1% e 11.0% 9.4% 4.7% g 11.5% 11.1% e 8.8% 17.1%
Health care spending per capita d $4,115 a $4,569 $636 $4,847 $4,361 $4,920 $2,232 b n/a $3,713 $5,131 e $3,855 $6,170 $2,881 h $5,153 $6,325 e $3,364 $9,086
Average annual growth rate of
real health care spending per
capita, 2009–13
2.42% l 0.22% 15.41% –0.17% 1.35% 1.95% 2.61% m n/a 3.83% 1.73% e 0.82% 1.40% n/a 6.95% e 2.54% e –0.88% 1.24%
Out-of-pocket health care
spending per capita d $771 a $623 $216 $625 $277 $649 $627 $666 $503 a $270 $420 $855 n/a $726 $1,630 $321 $1,074
Physicians,
2013
(unless
otherwise
noted)
Hospital
spending,
utilization,
and capacity,
2013
(unless
otherwise
noted)
Medical
technology,
2013
(unless
otherwise
noted)
IT, 2015
Hospital spending per capita d $1,645 a $1,338 $392 $2,070 $1,600 $1,423 $772 b n/a 1,673 a $1,849 n/a $2,285 a n/a $1,907 $2,289 n/a $2,964
Spending on pharmaceuticals
per capita d $590 a $761 $263 r $288 $622 $678 287 b $572 $756 a $397 n/a $437 n/a $496 $696 n/a $1,034
Number of practicing physicians
per 1,000 population
Average annual number of
physician visits per capita
Number of acute care hospital
beds per 1,000 population
3.39 2.48 a 2.04 3.62 a 3.10 4.05 3.43 3.90 2.29 a n/a 2.81 4.31 1.9 g,c 4.01 a 4.04 2.77 2.56
7.1 7.7 a 5.4 4.6 6.4 9.9 n/a 6.8 12.9 a 6.2 3.7 a 4.2 n/a 2.9 3.9 a n/a 4.0 c
3.36 a 1.71 a 4.55 2.47 3.35 5.34 1.90 2.75 b 7.92 3.32 a 2.59 2.29 2.0 i,b 1.94 2.91 2.28 2.48 a
Hospital spending per
discharge d $9,529 a $15,916 a $2,033 $11,471 c $9,622 $5,641 $4,797 b n/a $14,408 b 14,980 a n/a $11,361 c n/a n/a $13,437 a n/a $20,991 c
Hospital discharges per 1,000
population
Average length of stay for
curative care (days)
Magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) machines per million
population
173 a 83 a 140 172 c 166 252 159 124 111 b 119 a 146 175 c n/a 163 c 166 a 129 125 c
4.8 a 7.6 a 8.9 n/a 5.7 a 7.7 4.3 6.8 17.2 6.4 a 5.3 5.5 n/a 5.6 a 5.9 5.9 5.4 b
13.4 8.8 3.2 p n/a 9.4 n/a 3.1 24.6 a 46.9 b 11.5 11.2 n/a 8.3 j,c n/a n/a 6.1 35.5
MRI exams per 1,000 population 27.6 52.8 42.7 p 60.3 90.9 n/a 30.5 n/a n/a 50.0 b n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 106.9
Physicians’ use of EMRs
(% of primary care physicians) f 92% 73% n/a n/a 75% 84% n/a n/a n/a 98% 100% 99% n/a 99% 54% 98% 84%
Health risk
factors, 2013 Percentage of adults who report
(unless being daily smokers
12.8% 14.9% 28.1% q 17% 24.1% a 20.9% 16.2% 21.1% 19.3% 18.5% 15.5% 15.0% 13.3% k 10.7% 20.4% a 20.0% a 13.7%
otherwise
noted)
Obesity (BMI>30) prevalence 28.3% b 25.8% 11.9% q 14.2% n 14.5% a,n 23.6% 15.7% n 10.3% n 3.7% 11.1% n 30.6% 10.0% a,n 10.8% k,c 11.7% n 10.3% a,n 24.9% 35.3% a
Source: OECD Health Data 2015 (November) unless otherwise noted.
a 2012.
b 2011.
c 2010.
d Adjusted for differences in the cost of living.
e Current spending only, and excludes spending on capital formation of health care providers.
f Commonwealth 2015 Survey of Primary Care Physicians.
g Source: World Bank, 2014.
h Source: World Bank, 2014; 2005 purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment.
i Source: World Bank, 2014; may include chronic care beds as well as acute care beds.
j Source: World Health Organization, 2014.
k Source: Singapore Health Promotion Board, 2014.
l 2009–12.
m 2009–11.
n Self-reported as opposed to measured data.
o China indicators are from China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2014 unless otherwise noted.
p Calculated by using data from China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook and Gu, X., D. He, X. Hu et al., Forecast analysis of
MRI allocation in China. China Health Resources 2013, 16(1):41–43.
q National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, 2015. Report on Nutrition and Non-communicable Disease Status of Chinese
Residents 2015.
r China National Health Development Research Center. China National Health Accounts Report 2014.
International Profiles of Health Care Systems, 2015
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