{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"europe-health-spending-per-capita-by-country","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-health-spending-per-capita-by-country","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-health-spending-per-capita-by-country/","title":"Health Spending per Capita in Europe by Country (2023)","description":"Health expenditure per inhabitant across 33 European countries in 2023: 10,876 EUR in Switzerland against 525 EUR in Georgia — a twentyfold gap. 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Note how different this ordering is from the share-of-GDP ranking: Switzerland and Luxembourg move to the top because their incomes are high, while Germany, which leads on the GDP share, ranks seventh here."},{"question":"How large is the health spending gap within Europe?","answer":"10,876 EUR per person at the top against 525 EUR at the bottom, measured at market exchange rates. Converting to purchasing power standards narrows the gap substantially, because healthcare is labour-intensive and staff cost far less in lower-income countries. Even adjusted, the ratio between the best- and worst-resourced European health systems remains roughly four to one."},{"question":"Should health spending be compared per capita or as a share of GDP?","answer":"Per capita in euro tells you what resources a health system actually commands, which is what determines staffing levels, equipment and waiting times. Share of GDP tells you what priority a country gives health relative to its means, which is the policy question. A country can be generous by the second measure and poorly resourced by the first — Romania and Bulgaria are the clearest cases in this ranking."}]}