Spending on Health

I attended a conference yesterday and during the presentations I picked up some interesting statistics. Because I love this fun-with-numbers stuff, I thought I'd pass them along:

Per-capita spending on health per year:
• World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation: $34
• Sub-Saharan Africa average: $13
• Ethiopia spending: $7
• Ethiopia spending, amount from Government of Ethiopia: $2
• (U.K.: $192)
• (USA: $5,267)

Hospital beds per 1000 people:
• WHO Recommendations: 0.33
• Ethiopia: 0.1
• (USA: 3.6)
• (Switzerland: 18.3)

Discuss.

Comments

[John]

First a question - Is that spending by individuals, by the government, or all health related spending?

Second - The Swiss must be a sickly people ;-).

[Marc]

That's total spending from all sources, public and private. Yeah, what's up with those Swiss?

[Emily]

Just amazing. I put a link to this on my blog. It's stunning really. Thank you.

[Aster]

Hi there,

Nice stats ...

I remember reading a similar stat at the Ethiopian Portal website:

http://www.EthioPortal.com

[jen]

Thanks for posting this. I too linked to you - hope that's ok! :)