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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 16.
Published in final edited form as: Altern Ther Health Med. 2012 Sep-Oct;18(5):36–42.

Table 2.

The Concentration of Out-of-pocket Expenditures on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Percentile of CAM User Population Total Expenditures on CAM (billions of USD) Percentage of National Expenditures on CAM Mean Annual Expenditures on CAM (USD)
Top 1% 1.6 11 6685
Top 2% 3.5 25 5193
Top 5% 4.6 32 3432
Top 10% 6.6 48 2392
Top 25% 10.0 72 1385
Top 50% 12.5 90 839
Bottom 50% 1.4 10 92