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looking at 2019 - the year before covid blew everything out of the water and it's unclear how care has been apportioned, other western European countries spending more as a portion of GDP

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA

Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark all spend more (as well as the US, Canada, Japan, Austrailia)

Eastern and Southern European countries have very different demographics, income levels, and from personal experience expectations -- certainly Greek healthcare is very different to what you get in countries like France, UK and US.



> looking at 2019

this is cherry picking a bit as the UK has been consistently in the top 20 countries in the world for health as a portion of GDP.

and this percentage of gdp spent on health has been going up for 40 years now:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...




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