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Hong Kong has about 1.9 doctors per 1000 people, which is the same ratio as in Taiwan. [10] Of the over 14,600 doctors in Hong Kong, about 60% work in private practice and the remaining 40% work in the public service. [11] The majority of doctors in Hong Kong, graduated from one of the 2 local medical schools.
Health care cost as percent of GDP (total economy of a nation). [1] [2] Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018. [3] This article includes 2 lists of countries of the world and their total expenditure on health per capita. Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures.
The National Insurance system pays all necessary costs over these caps. Public spending on health care in 2006 was 13.6 billion euros (equivalent to US$338 per person per month). The increase over 2005 at 8.2 per cent was below the OECD average of 9 percent. Household budgets directly met 18.7 per cent of all health care costs. [70]
The availability of low- or no-cost health care provided by the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security has also made Venezuela's health care infrastructure one of the more advanced in the region. However, despite being the most comprehensive and well funded in the region, the health care system has deteriorated sharply since the 1980s.
Health care cost as percent of GDP (total economy of a nation). [1] [2] Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries.US average of $10,447 in 2018. [3]This article includes 2 lists of countries of the world and their total expenditure on health as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
[2] [obsolete source] Because of its early health education, professional health services, and well-developed health care and medication system, Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 88 for females and 83 for men, [3] which is the highest in the world, and an infant mortality rate of 1.169 deaths per 1,000 births, the lowest in the world.
The report suggests that without health care reforms the spending on health care in China will increase to 9% of China's GDP by 2035 which is an increase from the 5.6% of China's GDP in 2014. [34] With substantial urbanization, attention to health care has changed.
The Chinese economist, Yang Fan, wrote in 2001 that lip service being given to the old socialist health care system and deliberately ignoring and failing to regulate the actual private health care system is a serious failing of the Chinese health care system.