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List of countries by health insurance coverage
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A list of countries by health insurance coverage. The table lists the percentage of the total population covered by total public and primary private health insurance, by government/social health insurance, and by primary private health insurance, including 34 members of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. "OECD 2011"
| Rank | Country | Total public | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| and primary | ||||
| private health insurance | Government / | |||
| social health insurance | ||||
| Primary | ||||
| private health insurance | ||||
| 1 | Australia | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Canada | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Czech Republic | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Denmark | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Finland | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Greece | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Hungary | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Iceland | 100.0 | 99.5 | 0.5 |
| 1 | Ireland | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Israel | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Italy | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Japan | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | South Korea | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | New Zealand | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Norway | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Portugal | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Slovenia | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | South Africa | 100.0 | 84.0 | 16.0 |
| 1 | Sweden | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | Switzerland | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | United Kingdom | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Austria | 99.9 | 99.9 | 0.0 |
| 22 | France | 99.9 | 99.9 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Germany | 99.9 | 89.3 | 10.7 |
| 22 | Netherlands | 99.9 | 99.9 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Spain | 99.9 | 99.9 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Turkey | 99.5 | 99.5 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Belgium | 99.0 | 99.0 | 0.0 |
| 29 | India | 98.4 | 90.6 | 7.8 |
| 30 | Luxembourg | 97.2 | 97.2 | 0.0 |
| 31 | Slovakia | 94.5 | 94.5 | 0.0 |
| 32 | Chile | 94.3 | 74.4 | 19.0 |
| 33 | Estonia | 94.1 | 94.1 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Poland | 91.5 | 91.5 | 0.0 |
| 35 | United States | 91.2 | 36.3 | 54.9 |
| 36 | Mexico | 90.2 | 90.2 | 0.0 |
| 37 | Algeria | 90.0 | 90.0 | 0.0 |
| 38 | Jordan | 55.0 | 43.8 | 11.1 |
| 39 | Paraguay | 27.0 | 20.0 | 7.0 |
|}
Charts
Expand the charts to see the breakdown:
- "Government/compulsory": Government spending and compulsory health insurance.
- "Voluntary": Voluntary health insurance and private funds such as households’ out-of-pocket payments, NGOs and private corporations.
- They are represented by columns starting at zero. They are not stacked. The 2 are combined to get the total.
- At the source you can run your cursor over the columns to get the year and the total for that country.
- Click the table tab at the source to get 3 lists (one after another) of amounts by country: "Total", "Government/compulsory", and "Voluntary".
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References
References
- OECD. (June 27, 2013). "OECD Health Data: Social protection". [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- "84% of South Africans get 2nd rate healthcare - Motsoaledi".
- "Economic Survey 2022-23: Health Security Post Covid Driving Health Insurance Growth In India".
- "Ayushman Bharat Yojana or National Health Protection Scheme is a program which aims to provide a service to create a healthy, capable and content new India. Presently it is running as a pilot project in Uttar Pradesh from 4 September 2018. It has two goals, one, creating a network of health and wellness infrastructure across the nation to deliver comprehensive primary healthcare services, and another is to provide insurance cover to at least 40 per cent of India's population which is majorly deprived of secondary and tertiary care services. This centrally sponsored flagship scheme aims to provide an annual health cover of up to Rs. 5 lakh to vulnerable 10 crore families (Approximately 50 crore persons – 40% of country's population) based on Socio Economic and Caste Census database".
- "Swasthya Sathi".
- (May 2021). "Rajasthan launches universal health insurance scheme". The Hindu.
- "Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) | Government of Odisha".
- "Algeria Health Insurance".
- (22 February 2016). "'55% of population, 68% of Jordanians covered by health insurance'".
- (2010-01-06). "PARAGUAY: Public Health Care Free of Charge".
- [[OECD]] Data. [https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm Health resources - Health spending]. {{doi. 10.1787/8643de7e-en. 2 bar charts: For both: From bottom menus: Countries menu > choose OECD. Check box for "latest data available". Perspectives menu > Check box to "compare variables". Then check the boxes for government/compulsory, voluntary, and total. Click top tab for chart (bar chart). For GDP chart choose "% of GDP" from bottom menu. For per capita chart choose "US dollars/per capita". Click fullscreen button above chart. Click "print screen" key. Click top tab for table, to see data.
- [https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-and-health-spending-us-focus Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier]. May 26, 2017. By [[Max Roser]] at [[Our World in Data]]. Click the sources tab under the chart for info on the countries, healthcare expenditures, and data sources. See the later version of the chart [https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low here].
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