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What is the share households spend out of pocket in total health care expenditure?

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Values among 41 countries

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Definition:	Household Out-of-pocket Expenses as Percentage of Current Health Care Expenditure
Year:	2018
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	BGR, HRV, CYP, MLT, ROU
Exceptions:	BGR (2017), HRV (2017), CYP (2017), MLT (2017), ROU (2017)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Health care expenditure by financing scheme [hlth_sha11_hf] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.… extracted May 28th, 2020
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, CAN, CHL, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2016), BEL (2017), CZE (2017), DNK (2017), FRA (2017), GRC (2017), ISL (2017), IRL (2017), ISR (2017), LVA (2017), LUX (2017), MEX (2017), SVK (2017), ESP (2017), CHE (2017), TUR (2017), GBR (2017), USA (2017)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Health expenditure and financing URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted May 28th, 2020

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	45.1175
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Household Out Of Pocket Expenses

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Upper middle group

France

8.1

9.38

Luxembourg

7.9

10.67

Netherlands

7.8

10.78

Croatia

7.8

10.97

USA

7.8

10.99

Slovenia

7.6

12.04

Ireland

7.6

12.28

Germany

7.5

12.33

Japan

7.5

12.75

New Zealand

7.4

12.91

Denmark

7.3

13.74

Norway

7.2

14.17

Czechia

7.0

14.81

Sweden

7.0

14.81

Canada

7.0

15.06

6.8

15.96

Iceland

6.7

16.48

Turkey

6.5

17.38

Belgium

6.5

17.64

Australia

6.3

18.34

Slovakia

6.3

18.71

Finland

6.0

20.07

Lower middle group

Romania

5.9

20.49

Poland

5.9

20.59

Israel

5.6

22.25

Italy

5.4

23.08

Estonia

5.4

23.15

Spain

5.3

23.57

Austria

5.0

25.26

Hungary

4.8

25.96

Portugal

4.5

27.35

Switzerland

4.2

28.95

Lithuania

3.6

32.28

South Korea

3.4

32.85

Greece

3.1

34.75

Malta

3.0

34.87

Chile

3.0

35.13

Bottom group

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Mexico

1.8

41.28

Latvia

1.7

41.79

Cyprus

1.1

44.64

Bulgaria

1.0

46.55

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