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. 2021 Jun 2;16(1):82. doi: 10.1007/s11657-020-00871-9

Table 2.

Cost of osteoporotic fractures in relation to the population and health care spending (2019)

Country Population (thousands) Health care spending (millions €) Healthcare spending (% GDP) Healthcare spending (€ per capita) Fracture cost (% health care spending)
Austria 8,847 38,746.40 10.4 4,379.59 3.4
Belgium 11,422 45,746.49 10.3 4,005.10 2.4
Bulgaria 7,024 4,214.84 8.1 600.04 4.2
Croatia 4,089 3,350.71 6.8 819.36 3.9
Cyprus 1,189 1,323.06 6.7 1,112.50 5.8
Czech Republic 10,626 13,959.61 7.2 1,313.76 2.7
Denmark 5,797 29,811.80 10.1 5,142.23 4.7
Estonia 1,321 1,529.83 6.4 1,158.18 2.0
Finland 5,518 20,768.83 9.2 3,763.80 2.9
France 66,987 261,591.87 11.3 3,905.10 2.6
Germany 82,928 371,370.83 11.2 4,478.24 3.7
Greece 10,728 14,601.06 8.0 1,361.07 6.2
Hungary 9,769 8,597.02 6.9 880.05 5.0
Ireland 4,854 21,289.77 7.2 4,386.47 2.0
Italy 60,431 153,854.16 8.8 2,545.94 6.0
Latvia 1,927 1,621.85 5.3 841.85 2.9
Lithuania 2,790 2,745.30 6.5 984.14 3.2
Luxembourg 608 3,053.81 5.5 5,024.96 1.3
Malta 484 1,064.06 9.3 2,200.61 2.5
Netherlands 17,231 75,008.25 10.1 4,353.09 1.8
Poland 37,979 30,787.16 6.5 810.65 2.2
Portugal 10,282 17,587.68 9.0 1,710.57 5.6
Romania 19,474 9,749.41 5.2 500.64 2.5
Slovakia 5,447 5,764.15 6.7 1,058.22 3.1
Slovenia 2,067 3,546.49 8.2 1,715.46 2.5
Spain 46,724 104,267.79 8.9 2,231.58 3.8
Sweden 10,183 52,765.82 11.0 5,181.67 4.3
Switzerland 8,517 74,947.83 12.3 8,800.26 4.5
UK 66,489 227,158.96 9.6 3,416.49 2.4
EU27+2 521,730 1,600,824.83 9.4 3,068.30 3.5