The table illustrates the healthcare investment in five different countries, namely Japan, Italy, Germany, France and the USA in 2002.
Overall, it is discernible from the chart that France was the leading country both in terms of public and private spending. Notably, the percentage of the public spending was higher than that of private spending in all countries.
In terms of public spending, France headed the chart at 8.6%. Germany trailed behind at 7%. The USA ranked third, at 6%, followed by Japan and Italy, at 5.8% and 5.3%, respectively.
Focusing on the proportion of the private expenditure, it was significantly lower than that of public expenditure, showing that the USA, Italy and Germany had fairly similar spending rate, at 2.6%, 2.4% and 2.3%. Besides, the percentage of the private spending in France was two times higher than that in Japan, at 2.8% and 1.4%. In summary, the rankings for total from the highest to the lowest was France, Germany, the USA, Italy and Japan, standing at 11.4%, 9.3%, 8.6%, 7.7% and 7.2%, respectively
