Chart assignment
Health careers chart assignment
Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.
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How much does each country spend on health care per person?
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In 2023, the United States spent $13,473 per person on health care, about 10 times the world figure of $1,317. Germany spent $6,395, Japan $3,638, China $763 and India $85; Madagascar spent the least, $17. Search 191 countries and territories. Spending counts what governments, insurers and households paid for health care, but not new hospitals or equipment, in US dollars at each year's exchange rates, not adjusted for differences in prices.
How to read this chart
Each bar is what a country spent on health care in a year, by governments, insurers and households together, divided by its population and turned into U.S. dollars. The dashed line is the world. The figures aren't adjusted for prices, so a dollar buys more care in some countries than others.
Questions to discuss
- How much does the United States spend on health care per person, compared with the world figure?
- Look up U.S. life expectancy on Chartly. Does spending the most mean living the longest?
- Spending is in U.S. dollars at exchange rates, not adjusted for prices. Why might care cost more in the U.S. than elsewhere?
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators: Current health expenditure per capita (current US$) (CC BY 4.0 (credit the World Bank)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2023
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