Table 2. Remuneration of salaried health workers by governments as share of total health expenditure (THE) and general government health expenditure (GGHE) in Member States of the World Health Organization, 2010 (or closest available year).

Country income groupa	Averageb government remuneration of salaried health workers					No. of countries with data
	Share of THE			Share of GGHE
	%	SD		%	SD
High	18.0	17.4		31.2	20.2	48
Upper middle	23.4	10.8		38.2	15.8	51
Lower middle	18.7	10.9		34.7	15.8	48
Low	9.9	6.5		26.2	14.3	32
All	18.1	15.3		33.2	17.2	179

SD, standard deviation.

^a According to the 2013 World Bank classification, based on per capita income.

^b The figures are arithmetic averages of the shares in each country group. This unweighted average represents the typical proportion of countries in a particular income group rather than the population-weighted average of all countries in the group.

Note: The data for the different variables in the table are not necessarily for the same countries.

Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure Database.¹⁸