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. 2013 Sep 13;8(1):144. doi: 10.1007/s11657-013-0144-1

Table 1.

Cost of osteoporotic fractures in relation to the population and health care spending (2010)

Country Population (000) Health care spending (€000,000) Health care spending (% GDP) Health care spending (€/capita) Fracture cost (% health care spending)
Austria 8,392 31,000 10.2 3,741 2.5
Belgium 10,712 42,000 9.9 3,903 1.5
Bulgaria 7,493 2,700 7.2 354 1.6
Cyprus 1,103 1,000 6.2 937 5.2
Czech Republic 10,493 11,000 6.9 1,087 2.2
Denmark 5,551 26,000 10.8 4,759 4.0
Estonia 1,339 1,000 5.2 747 3.0
Finland 5,365 18,000 8.2 3,263 2.2
France 62,634 227,000 11.0 3,617 2.1
Germany 82,056 281,000 10.6 3,418 3.2
Greece 11,358 24,000 9.5 2,126 2.9
Hungary 9,985 7,000 8.3 709 3.6
Ireland 4,470 15,000 7.5 3,399 1.5
Italy 60,098 148,000 9.0 2,461 4.7
Latvia 2,252 1,000 6.6 520 3.2
Lithuania 3,325 2,000 6.2 546 2.6
Luxembourg 506 3,000 7.3 6,235 0.7
Malta 416 500 8.4 1,108 3.8
Netherlands 16,610 64,000 9.4 3,829 1.3
Poland 38,276 25,000 6.2 660 2.4
Portugal 10,676 19,000 10.2 1,826 3.0
Romania 21,486 7,000 4.5 309 2.0
Slovakia 5,463 3,000 7.1 1,092 3.6
Slovenia 2,028 6,000 8.4 1,485 0.9
Spain 45,317 102,000 8.4 2,247 2.8
Sweden 9,294 34,000 9.2 3,709 4.3
UK 61,899 159,000 8.2 2,564 3.4
EU27 498,597 1,260,000 2,528 3.0