TABLE 1.
Country information broken down by population, economic power and type of health system.
| Country | Population in 2020 (Millions) Eurostat, (2021a), Scottish Government (2021), Statistical Institute of Catalonia (2021a) | GDP per Capita in 2020 (€) Eurostat, (2021b), Statistical Institute of Catalonia, (2021b), Office for National Statistics (2021), The World Bank Data (2021) | Health System (European Health Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2021) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 8.9 | 42,300 | Social health insurance |
| Germany | 83.2 | 40,490 | Social health insurance |
| Scotland (United Kingdom) | 5.5 | 33,744 a | National health service |
| France | 67.3 | 33,960 | Social health insurance |
| Norway | 5.4 | 59,180 | National health service |
| Sweden | 10.3 | 45,910 | National health service |
| Lithuania | 2.8 | 17,510 | Social health insurance |
| Italy | 59.6 | 27,780 | National health service |
| Catalonia (Spain) | 7.7 | 32,577 b | National health service |
| Malta | 0.5 | 25,310 | National health service |
| Slovenia | 2.1 | 22,310 | Social health insurance |
| Slovakia | 5.4 | 16,770 | Social health insurance |
| Poland | 39 | 13,640 | Social health insurance |
| Hungary | 9.8 | 13,940 | Social health insurance |
| Croatia | 4.1 | 12,170 | Social health insurance |
| Romania | 19.3 | 11,290 | Social health insurance |
| Bulgaria | 6.9 | 8,750 | Social health insurance |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3.5 c | 5,031 d | Social health insurance |
a
NB: GDP, for Scotland is from 2019 and was taken in GBP., It was converted to euros through the European Central Bank currency converter (European Central Bank, 2021) with the exchange rate for 2019.
b
NB: GDP, for Catalonia is from 2019.
c
NB: Population for Bosnia and Herzegovina is from 2019.
d
NB: GDP, for Bosnia and Herzegovina was in US, dollars. It was converted to euros through the European Central Bank currency converter (European Central Bank, 2021) with the exchange rate for 2020.