The given table provides statistic of people spending rate on health in 2002 in five different countries which are Japan, Italy, Germany, France and USA, both spending rate for public and private healthcare services were also given.
Overall, French index presented the largest proportion of healthcare expense and Japan index was the lowest in comparison with the others. We can see that the majority of five countries citizens tended to spend money on public services rather than the private one.
In 2002, France saw the highest level of spending at 11.4% contrast with Japan and Italy which rate were the lowest, at 7.2% and 7.7%, respectively. Germany and USA spending level in 2002 marked around 9%, at 9.3% and 8.6%.
Regarding proportion of expense on public healthcare services, France showed the highest percentage, remain at 8.6%. In contrast, the figure of Japan and Italy were far lower than French, the percentage of spending on universal healthcare in these countries were around 5.5% (5.3% and 5.8%, respectively). In additional, Germany, public healthcare accounted for 5.8% on German general expense and it was 6% in the USA.
In terms of spending on private healthcare services, Italy, USA, France and Germany index were between 2.5% and 3% which were much lower than the percentage of public spending in these countries. Finally, the figure for expense for private services in Japan remained the lowest among five countries, its index is just around 1.5% in 2002.