{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"fi-health-expenditure-per-capita","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/fi-health-expenditure-per-capita","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/fi-health-expenditure-per-capita/","title":"Finland Health Expenditure per Capita in EUR (2023)","description":"Finland's current health expenditure reached 5,116.7 EUR per inhabitant in 2023, up 9.7% year-on-year. 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That is a gain of 970.0 EUR over the three years, with the increase accelerating each year - 4.1% in 2020, 7.3% in 2021, 4.9% in 2022 and 9.7% in 2023. Eurostat publishes the figures in euro per inhabitant at current prices, drawn from the HLTH_SHA11_HF health financing accounts. The full annual series runs back to 2005, giving 19 published observations for Finland."},{"question":"What is Finland's current health expenditure per capita in euros?","answer":"The most recent published figure is 5,116.7 EUR per inhabitant in 2023, covering current health expenditure across all financing schemes - public, private insurance and out-of-pocket spending combined. The figure is expressed in euro at current prices and market exchange rates, not adjusted for purchasing power parity. It comes from Eurostat's HLTH_SHA11_HF dataset and is updated annually, typically with a lag of several months after the reference year."},{"question":"How much did Finland spend on health per capita in 2023?","answer":"5,116.7 EUR per inhabitant, up 9.7% from 4,666.1 EUR in 2022 - a single-year increase of 450.5 EUR, the largest annual rise recorded in the 19-year Eurostat series for Finland. It follows two other strong years, 2021's 7.3% and 2022's 4.9%, so 2023 extends rather than reverses a multi-year acceleration. 2023 is the latest year for which Eurostat has published a figure for Finland in this series."},{"question":"Is Finland's health expenditure per capita measured in euros or purchasing power parity?","answer":"Euros, at current prices and market exchange rates - not purchasing power parity. Eurostat's HLTH_SHA11_HF series reports current health expenditure per inhabitant in nominal euro terms, so the figures are directly comparable in currency value but do not adjust for differing price levels or wage costs between countries. Analysts comparing Finland against non-euro or lower-cost health systems should treat the euro figure as a spending measure rather than a resourcing-parity measure, since a euro buys different amounts of healthcare labour and equipment in different countries."},{"question":"What does 'current health expenditure' mean in this Eurostat series?","answer":"Current health expenditure covers spending on healthcare goods and services consumed within the year - hospital care, outpatient care, medicines, prevention and administration - financed by any combination of government budgets, statutory and private health insurance, and out-of-pocket household payments. It excludes capital investment such as new hospital construction or medical equipment purchases, which Eurostat tracks separately. The measure follows the System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011) framework, which is why it is comparable across the European countries that report to Eurostat under the same standard."},{"question":"How has Finland's health expenditure per capita changed since 2005?","answer":"It has grown from 2,601.8 EUR per inhabitant in 2005 to 5,116.7 EUR in 2023, an increase of 2,514.9 EUR - roughly double over 19 years. Growth was gradual and occasionally flat through the mid-2010s, including the series' only annual decline, -0.2% in 2016, before re-accelerating from 2017 onward. The three years from 2021 to 2023 alone added 970.0 EUR, more than a third of the entire 19-year gain, in the fastest sustained stretch the series has recorded."},{"question":"Who publishes Finland's health expenditure per capita data and how often is it updated?","answer":"Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, publishes the series under dataset code HLTH_SHA11_HF via its SDMX REST API. It is updated annually, and the current release covers 2005 through 2023 - 19 observations for Finland. Eurostat typically publishes each reference year's figures several months after the year ends, which is why the most recent available data point lags the current date by more than a full year."},{"question":"How does Finland's health spending growth compare across recent years?","answer":"Growth has been uneven but consistently positive since 2017: 1.0% in 2017, 2.1% in 2018, 4.1% in both 2019 and 2020, 7.3% in 2021, 4.9% in 2022 and 9.7% in 2023. That run stands in contrast to 2005-2016, when growth was generally slower and included one outright decline, -0.2% in 2016. No year since 2017 has posted a decrease, making the last six years of data the most consistently strong stretch in the published series."}]}