Table A-18. Federally Financed Health Expenditures Relative to Total Federal Government Expenditures, and to Gross National Product, Selected Years, 1950-1981.
| Year | Health1 Expenditures Federally, Financed (Amounts in billions of dollars) |
Federal Government2 Expenditures (Amounts in billions of dollars) |
Health Expenditures Federally Financed As Percent of Federal Gov't Expenditures | Gross National Product2 (Amounts in billions of dollars) |
Federal Gov't Expenditures As Percent of Gross National Product | Health Expenditures Federally Financed As Percent of Gross National Product |
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| 1950 | $1.6 | $40.8 | 3.9% | $286.5 | 14.2% | 0.6% |
| 1955 | 2.0 | 68.1 | 2.9 | 400.0 | 17.0 | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 3.0 | 93.8 | 3.2 | 506.5 | 18.4 | 0.6 |
| 1965 | 5.5 | 123.8 | 4.4 | 691.0 | 17.9 | 0.8 |
| 1966 | 7.4 | 143.8 | 5.2 | 756.0 | 19.0 | 1.0 |
| 1967 | 11.9 | 163.7 | 7.3 | 799.6 | 20.5 | 1.5 |
| 1968 | 14.9 | 180.5 | 7.8 | 873.4 | 20.7 | 1.6 |
| 1969 | 16.1 | 188.4 | 8.5 | 944.0 | 20.0 | 1.7 |
| 1970 | 17.7 | 204.3 | 8.7 | 992.7 | 20.6 | 1.8 |
| 1971 | 20.3 | 220.6 | 9.2 | 1,077.6 | 20.5 | 1.9 |
| 1972 | 22.9 | 244.3 | 9.4 | 1,185.9 | 20.6 | 1.9 |
| 1973 | 25.2 | 264.3 | 9.5 | 1,326.4 | 19.9 | 1.9 |
| 1974 | 30.4 | 299.4 | 10.2 | 1,434.2 | 20.9 | 2.1 |
| 1975 | 37.1 | 356.6 | 10.4 | 1,549.2 | 23.0 | 2.4 |
| 1976 | 42.6 | 384.8 | 11.1 | 1,718.0 | 22.4 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 47.4 | 421.1 | 11.3 | 1,918.3 | 22.0 | 2.5 |
| 1978 | 53.9 | 461.1 | 11.7 | 2,163.8 | 21.3 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 61.0 | 509.7 | 12.0 | 2,417.8 | 21.3 | 2.5 |
| 1980 | 71.1 | 602.1 | 11.8 | 2,633.1 | 22.9 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 83.9 | 688.2 | 12.2 | 2,937.7 | 23.4 | 2.9 |
1
Robert M. Gibson and Daniel R. Waldo, “National Health Expenditures, 1981,” Health Care Financing Review, September 1982.
2
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, U.S. Department of Commerce.