The table compares the information about speding on health in five various countries, namely Japan, Italy, Germany, France and the USA in 2002.
Overall, France recorded the highest proporation of the total, while Japan had the lowest. In additon, public speding of France was also the most popular spending, whereas the smallest percentage belong to private speding of Japan.
In terms of public speding, France was the leading proprotion, at 8.6%, with a similar pattern was observed in private spending ( 2.8%), at which point this country had the largest total. At the second ranking was Germany, it accounted for 9.3% overall, with 7% and 2.3% in public spending and private spending, respectively, which was higher than both of the USA, standing at 6% and 2.6%, creating 8.6% of the total.
Turning to Italy, which country represented 5.3% of public speding and 2.4% of private spending. Therefore, the generall figure of it was 7.7%, compared to 5.8% of Japans’s public spending, followed by only 1.4% of private spending in this country, making it the least of the over, at 7.2%.
