Rich countries spend 60 times as much on healthcare per person as poor countries

Rich countries spend, on average, the equivalent of $7,300 per person on healthcare each year. This includes public and private expenditures.

In low-income countries, the equivalent is only around $125 per person.

This is based on spending data from the World Health Organization’s Global Health Observatory, which you can see in the chart across levels of income. The data is adjusted for differences in living costs between countries.

That means rich countries spend around 60 times as much per person on healthcare as the poorest countries.

This resource gap is one of the reasons for the stark differences in health outcomes. The average life expectancy is around 16 years lower in poorer countries, and other health measures, such as child mortality, maternal mortality, and disease burden, tend to be far worse.

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