Table 1.
Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) for health spending per capita and as a proportion of GDP, source of health spending per capita and share of health spending for the years 1995 to 2017
| Health spending per capita ($) | Health spending per GDP (%) | Source of health spending | Share of health spending | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government spending per capita ($) | Prepaid private spending per capita ($) | Out-of-pocket spending per capita ($) | Government spending as share of total (%) | Prepaid private spending as share of total (%) | Out-of-pocket spending as share of total (%) | |||
| Brazil | 1236.0 (158.3) | 8.2 (0.4) | 529.0 (77.1) | 298.7 (81.8) | 406.2 (6.2) | 42.7 (1.0) | 23.7 (3.4) | 33.4 (4.1) |
| China | 373.0 (239.7) | 4.2 (0.4) | 178.3 (160.3) | 30.7 (8.5) | 163.7 (73.3) | 39.9 (13.5) | 10.8 (5.0) | 49.1 (9.5) |
| India | 159.1 (48.4) | 3.7 (2.02) | 36.3 (15.7) | 11.9 (6.1) | 108.6 (26.6) | 22.2 (3.0) | 7.0 (1.4) | 69.2 (4.1) |
| Russian Federation | 1152.4 (281.7) | 5.1 (0.4) | 707.0 (164.0) | 60.2 (16.2) | 384.4 (131.7) | 61.6 (2.8) | 5.6 (2.3) | 32.6 (3.7) |
| South Africa | 934.5 (155.1) | 7.5 (0.6) | 434.6 (139.4) | 377.3 (28.7) | 106.3 (16.8) | 45.4 (7.4) | 41 (5.3) | 11.9 (3.5) |