Table A-7. Per Capita Total Systems Cost, Nominal and Constant Dollar, Selected Years, 1950-1990.

Calendar Year	Total Systems Cost Per Capita1 Current Dollars	Total Systems Cost Per Capita Constant Dollars2	Gross National Product Per Capita, Current Dollars	Total Systems Cost as Percent of GNP
Historical Estimates
1950	$ 70	$131	$1,852	3.8%
1960	129	187	2,755	4.7
1965	181	243	3,492	5.2
1970	312	342	4,759	6.6
1971	341	355	5,100	6.7
1975	531	422	7,045	7.5
1979	825	505	10,555	7.8
1980	947	530	11,365	8.3
1981	1,090	557	12,555	8.7
Projections
1983	1,359	609	14,562	9.3
1985	1,683	662	17,348	9.7
1990	2,701	822	24,879	10.9

¹Total systems cost per capita is called per capita personal health care expenditures in Gibson and Waldo (1982).

²Per capita total systems cost was deflated by the implicit price deflator for GNP (1972= 100.0). See Table 1 for values of the deflator.