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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2014;34(Suppl 1):208–237.

Table 2.

Government Share of Final Consumption Expenditure, 2000, Selected Countries and Countries of the World by Per Capita Income.

Name (Per Capita GDP) Government Share of Final Consumption Expenditure (%)
Total Health Education
Indonesia ($2,807) 9.6 0.8 2.0
Thailand ($5,846) 16.5 3.1 7.9
Taiwan ($14,114) 19.3 0.3 3.9
France ($23,225) 29.8 9.1 7.4
US ($31,338) 23.8 6.4 5.8
Per Capita GDP
Less than $1,000 15.6 2.2 3.0
$1,000–4,999 16.1 2.9 4.5
$5,000–9,999 20.7 4.6 5.9
$10,000 or more 25.4 7.1 7.0

Notes and Sources: Per capita GDP is purchasing power parity adjusted using 1995 prices. Source is World Bank World Development Indicators 2004, except for Taiwan for which source is DGBAS Statistical Yearbook of Taiwan 2004 and Mason et al. (2004). For the US Medicare and Medicaid expenditures are included in public health spending.