Figure 1.
The Health Care Economics in GDP/Capita in 2016. Between 1995 and 2016, health spending grew at a rate of 4.00% in 22 of 195 countries. The highest annual growth rates in per capita health spending were observed in upper-middle-income countries (5.55%), mainly due to growth in government health spending, and in lower-middle-income countries (3.71%), mainly from Development Assistance for Health. Health spending globally reached $8.0 trillion in 2016, comprising 8.6% of the global economy.