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The Challenges Confronting Public Hospitals in India, Their Origins, and Possible Solutions
Table 7
Health spending indicators for selected group of countries, India and India’s neighbors, 2010.
| Country/Group of countries | Public health expenditure as % of GDP | Private expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health | Out of pocket expenditure as % of private expenditure on health | Out of pocket expenditure as % of total expenditure on health |
| South Asia | 1.08 | 70.9 | 80.7 | 61.5 | India | 1.06 | 71.8 | 86.0 | 61.8 | Afghanistan | 2.35 | 77.5 | 94.0 | 72.8 | Bangladesh | 1.35 | 63.5 | 96.6 | 61.3 | Bhutan | 3.60 | 15.4 | 94.7 | 14.5 | China | 2.70 | 45.7 | 77.2 | 35.3 | Maldives | 3.80 | 39.2 | 71.6 | 28.1 | Myanmar | 0.24 | 87.9 | 92.7 | 81.5 | Nepal | 1.89 | 62.6 | 90.4 | 56.6 | Pakistan | 0.79 | 71.8 | 88.0 | 63.2 | Sri Lanka | 1.57 | 54.4 | 81.9 | 44.6 | Cuba | 9.70 | 4.8 | 100 | 4.8 | USA | 8.49 | 51.8 | 22.7 | 11.8 | OECD countries | 7.94 | 37.4 | — | — | Lower middle income countries | 1.51 | 64.6 | 85.8 | 56.4 | Low income countries | 2.11 | 62.9 | 75.9 | 49.6 | Least developed countries | 2.18 | 60.9 | 80.7 | 50.5 | Sub-Saharan Africa (developing countries) | 2.8 | 56.8 | 62.8 | 30.9 |
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Source: Health Nutrition and Population Statistics in World Bank DataBank. Available at http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/variableselection/ selectvariables.aspx?source=health-nutrition-and-population-statistics on 15th August 2013.
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