Table 3.
National, contextual characteristics of health care, economy, demography and religion
| Belgium | Finland | France | Germany | Iceland | Ireland | Italy | Netherlands | Spain | Sweden | UK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General health care | |||||||||||
| Health expenditure per capita, compared to US: 100 (%)a | 47.8 | 49.5 | 58.8 | 58.5 | 53.0 | 29.8 | 49.8 | 49.5 | 29.8 | 56.0 | 37.9 |
| Practising physicians, density/1000b | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 2.9e | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Mental health care c | |||||||||||
| Psychiatric beds per 10,000 | 25 | 11.6 | 12.1 | 7.6 | 4.2 | 11.5 | 1.7 | 18.7 | 4.4 | 6.7 | 5.8 |
| Psychiatrists per 100,000 | 18 | 16 | 20 | 7.3 | 25 | 5.2 | 9 | 9 | 3.6 | 20 | 11 |
| Mental health care: index of availability (sum of rankings) | 19 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 10 |
| Economy a | |||||||||||
| Unemployment rate (% of labour force) | 8.8 | 3.7 | 9.0 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 13.7 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 15.8 | 1.5 | 5.5 |
| Gross domestic product per capita (US$/year) | 18,009 | 18,026 | 18,162 | 20,359 | 20,031 | 12,917 | 17,430 | 17,706 | 12,971 | 18,660 | 16,228 |
| Demography a | |||||||||||
| Population density (per km2) | 306.3 | 14.7 | 102.9 | 223.5f | 2.5 | 50.0 | 188.3 | 440.7 | 78.9 | 20.8 | 223.9 |
| Population aged 65 years or older (%) | 14.8 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 15.3 | 10.7 | 11.3 | 15.3 | 12.8 | 13.7 | 17.8 | 15.7 |
| Religion d | |||||||||||
| Roman Catholic (%) | 68 | 0 | 58 | 45 | 1 | 93 | 83 | 29 | 85 | 1 | 10 |
| Protestant (%) | 1 | 89 | 1 | 43 | 94 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 77 | 45 |
| Weekly church attendance (%) | 27 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 81 | 38 | 27 | 30 | 4 | 14 |
| Orthodox beliefs, mean score (range 0–12) | 4.6 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 9.0 | 6.9 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 6.4 |
aSource: OECD 1990
bSource: OECD 1995
cSource: WHO Atlas Country Profiles 2001
dSources: European Value Survey 1990
eMean value between 1990 (2.5) and 2000 (3.2) because no value for 1995 was available
fComputed for 1991, when West Germany and East Germany were unified; 1990 data for East Germany are missing