Table 4. Average^a yearly change in the remuneration of all salaried workers and of salaried health workers in 106 Member States of the World Health Organization, 2000–2010.

Country income groupb	No. of countries with data		Average yearly change
			In remuneration of salaried health workers, as share (%) of THE	In expenditure on health, as share (%) of GDP	In remuneration of salaried health workers, as share (%) of GDP	In remuneration of salaried workers, as share (%) of GDP
High	44		−0.56	1.90	1.05	−0.08
Upper middle	36		−0.64	1.14	0.32	0.25
Lower middle	20		−0.27	1.34	1.62	0.30
Low	6		−0.09	1.45	1.44	−1.41
All	106		−0.51	1.51	0.93	0.03

GDP, gross domestic product; THE, total health expenditure.

^a 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.

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

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

Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure Database.¹⁸