Table 2.
Accounting for changes in public spending for health, 2000–2017.
| N | Annual growth in per capita GDP (%) | Per capita public spending on health |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (constant 2017 US$) | Annual growth (%) | 2017 (constant 2017 US$) | Decomposition, share from: |
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| Economic growth (%) | Change in total public spending (%) | Reprioritization for health (%) | ||||||
| LMICs | 106 | 2.9 | 59 | 4.3 | 119 | 67 | 18 | 15 |
| LIC | 27 | 2.0 | 8 | 4.0 | 14 | 51 | 41 | 8 |
| LMI | 39 | 3.3 | 29 | 4.5 | 59 | 72 | 16 | 12 |
| UMI | 40 | 3.1 | 123 | 4.4 | 248 | 71 | 6 | 23 |
| SSA | 42 | 2.0 | 27 | 3.8 | 50 | 53 | 26 | 21 |
| SAR | 6 | 4.2 | 20 | 3.5 | 33 | 69 | 10 | −21 |
| MNA | 8 | 1.9 | 89 | 3.9 | 154 | 48 | 14 | 38 |
| EAP | 13 | 4.3 | 40 | 6.0 | 93 | 72 | 20 | 8 |
| ECA | 19 | 4.8 | 79 | 6.1 | 184 | 78 | 6 | 15 |
| LAC | 18 | 2.0 | 127 | 2.9 | 242 | 67 | 19 | 14 |
| HICs | 44 | 1.6 | 1327 | 3.2 | 2129 | 49 | 10 | 40 |
| Non-OECD | 15 | 1.6 | 494 | 3.5 | 858 | 45 | 23 | 31 |
| OECD | 29 | 1.6 | 1758 | 3.1 | 2786 | 52 | 3 | 46 |
| All | 150 | 2.5 | 431 | 4.0 | 708 | 63 | 16 | 21 |
Source/Notes: SOURCE: Authors' calculations using data from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database. NOTE: All US$ numbers are in constant 2017 terms; Shares may not add up to 100% due to rounding.