The table compares the proportion of spending on health in five different countries in 2002
Overall, it is clear that the data for France was consistently the highest spending on health, while the figure for Japan and Italy constituted the lowest in public and private spending. Notably, public spending had consistently overweighed private spending in all of these countries.
Their figures were consistently ranked at the higher spending nations of the period. The figure for France started at the highest figure, at 11.4%, while Germany and USA trailed behind at 9.3% and 8.6%, respectively. However, the public spending in France accounted for 8.6% of public spending, which are the highest results compared with 7% of Germany and 6% of USA in the same field. Meanwhile, the data for France occupy 2.8% of private spending, it is 0.3% higher than the USA, and for Germany, this number is double, so it is 0.6, which is only 2.3%.
It can be seen that Italy and Japan had the lowest total percentage of nations spending on health. The total spending on health of Italy commenced at 7.7% compared with only 7.2% of Japan. Turning to public spending on health with 5.8% of Japan, the gap is 0.6% compared to the figure for Italy at 5.3%. This ranking is reversed in private spending, with the data for Japan being 1.4% and 1% lower than for Italy at 2.4%.
