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let's talk numbers again how much does
the wild spend on health each year one
dollar in every hundred five no
according to a new report on global
health spending published by the World
Health Organization in 2015 the wild
spent close to ten percent of global GDP
on health that is one dollar in every
ten invested in health for instance to
pay for health workers facilities or
medicines piled up that one in ten
amounts to seven point three trillion
dollars it sounds like a lot of money
and it is what's more it's getting
bigger by four percent every year
between 2000 and 2015 and it is
increasing even faster in poor countries
with a six percent growth per year in
fact what people call the health economy
is growing faster that the global
economy itself which expanded by 2.8
percent per year over the same period
but there is a problem according to
whu-oh global health spending remains
very unequal for example although more
than 80 percent of people live in low
and middle income countries they see
less than 20% of total health spending
that means that many people across the
world are at a risk of falling into
poverty traps because of health expenses
often paid out of their own pocket w-h-o
estimates that this is the case for more
than 100 million people each year and
another staggering figure more than 50%
of the world's population does not have
access to health services when they need
them in high-income countries 7 out of
10 dollars spent on health come from
government or social health insurance
while the other three come from private
health insurance or out-of-pocket
payments this number drops to five in
ten in over a hundred middle-income
countries covering 76% of the wild
population living it to individuals to
cover the other half of the cost in 30
low-income countries the government pays
around $2 in every 10 less than in the
year 2003 dollars come from external aid
which leaves people to shoulder nearly
$5 of the burden of paying for health
care so what needs to change one obvious
way to change things is for governments
in countries that spend little to spend
more and it is clear that many of the
countries that have benefited from
economic growth over the past decade
could be spending more
keeping a close eye on health spending
is an important part of making this
happen better data drive better policy
and improve accountability
w-h-o and its partners are committed to
working with countries to improve the
availability and the quality of the data
at their disposal