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. 2023 Jan 17;35(4):e289–e300. doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2023.01.004

Table 1.

Economic, demographic and health system characteristics of 10 jurisdictions

Jurisdiction Income category GDP per capita (USD constant 2005) Population size (1000) Infant mortality rate (deaths/1000 live births) Life expectancy at births (years) Health spending (%GDP) Government health spending (% of total health expenditure) Out-of-pocket health spending (% of total health expenditure)
China Upper middle 10 170 1 433 784 9.595 76.91 5.4 56.0 35.2
Colombia Upper middle 6546 50 339 12.315 77.29 7.7 71.9 14.9
Egypt Lower middle 3019 100 388 15.117 71.80 4.7 27.8 62.7
Hong Kong High 48 354 7507 1.292 85.08 6.5 53.5 29.6
India Lower middle 2101 1 366 417 30.924 69.66 3.0 32.8 54.8
Indonesia Lower middle 4196 270 626 18.311 71.72 2.9 48.9 34.8
Singapore High 65 641 5804 1.584 83.50 4.1 51.7 30.2
Sri Lanka Lower middle 3852 21 800 7.347 76.89 3.9 47.2 45.4
UK High 42 417 67 530 3.678 81.20 10.2 79.5 17.1
Zambia Lower middle 1272 17 861 44.358 63.89 5.3 40.1 10.2

GDP, gross domestic product.

Data sources: GDP per capita, population size, life expectancy at birth: the World Bank (https://www.worldbank.org/en/home).

infant mortality rate: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (https://childmortality.org/), health spending (https://apps.who.int/nha/database/Home/Index/en), Hong Kong (https://www.healthbureau.gov.hk/statistics/download/dha/en/dha_summary_report_1920.pdf).