Table 1.
Statistic | Numbers |
---|---|
Health spending per capita US$ (US dollars calculated using PPPs*) | 2094 |
Percentage of GDP spent on health‐care | 8.1 |
Public expenditure as per cent of total expenditure on health | 70.9 |
Life expectancy | 80.5 |
Infant mortality per 1000 live births | 3.5 |
Doctors per 1000 people | 3.4 |
Acute care beds per 1000 (2003) | 2.8 |
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) units per million population | 7.7 |
OECD, Health Data 2006. 2
*PPP (purchasing price parity) which equalizes the purchasing price of different currencies for a given product or service.