The table compares the proportion of spending on health in five countries and their respective proportions of the total spending in 2002. Overall, it is clear that France accounted for the primary share of public and private spending on health, while Italy and Japan constituted the lowest in public and private spending, respectively. Additionally, public spending on health considerably outweighed private spending in all of these countries.
Looking first at the higher-spending nations, France accounted for 8.6% of public spending and 2.8% of the private one, which are the highest results. As a result, its percentage of total spending on health was the largest. As for Germany, public spending in this country was made up exactly 7%, followed by a comparable 6% of the USA. In terms of private spending, the rate of Germany was 2.3%, which was 3% lower than that in the USA. Concerning the total share of Germany and the USA, they are reported at nearly 9.3% and 8.6%, respectively.
Turning to the remaining two countries, the public spending on health was all below 6%, with 5.8% in Japan and 5.3% in Italy. Regarding private spending, Italy accounted for 2.4%, while only 1.4% in Japan. Because of the low share in public and private spending of these two cities, they allocated the lowest share of the total spending, which was reported to be about 7.2% in Japan and 7.7% in Italy.