HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING COUNTRY PROFILE: Poland, 2012
Poland spent
Domestic funding
100%
Funding from abroad
33 billion US$
on health care:
Spending by households
- $854 per capita
Expenditure by government
- 23% spent by
23% 70% 7%
households
Other
Per capita expenditure in US$ (constant 2012 US$)
" Poland: " Poland:
2012 average of hi EUR income
$12,711/capita 76 years
Total ex pendi tur e on heal th
3,500
countries
" EUR hi income " EUR hi income
Gov er nment ex pendi tur e on heal th
countries: countries: 79 years
Households out of pocket spending on $3,052
3,000
$31,080/capita
health
2,500
GDP per capita Life expectancy
$2,309
2,000
2009 data
" Poland: 6 per
1,500
100,000 live births
1,000
$872
" EUR hi income countries:
10 per 100,000 live births
$611
500
$474
$199
0
Maternal
1995 2000 2005 2010
mortality rate
2008 data
Government resources allocated to health
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
1995 2000 2005 2010
% of all government resources going to health % of domestic government resources going to health
General government
General gov ernment General gov ernment
expendi tu re on h eal th % expendi tu re on h eal th %
expenditure (GGE) % GDP
Government s health spending as
GGE GDP
compared to other countries of the
region
Denmark Switzerland Netherlands
France Netherlands Denmark
Finland Germany France
Belgium Monaco Austria
Greece Norway Germany
Among hi EUR countries:
Sweden Austria Belgium
Austria Denmark Sweden
Italy United Kingdom United Kingdom
Netherlands France Norway
Total government expenditure is low as
Slovenia Iceland Iceland
United Kingdom Sweden Italy
a % of GDP ((42%))
Portugal Croatia Spain
Spain Spain Switzerland
Iceland Belgium Finland
Cyprus Slovakia Czech Republic
Germany Czech Republic Slovenia
Malta Italy Andorra
Israel Luxembourg Greece
Share of government spending
Czech Republic Malta Malta
San Marino San Marino Portugal
allocated to health is low ((11%))
Norway Slovenia Luxembourg
Luxembourg Lithuania San Marino
Poland Portugal Croatia
Ireland Ireland Slovakia
Estonia Finland Ireland
Latvia Estonia Estonia
Slovakia Greece Lithuania
Croatia Poland Poland
Russian Federation Israel Israel Government expenditure on health as a
Lithuania Russian Federation Monaco
% of GDP is low ((5%))
Switzerland Latvia Russian Federation
Monaco Cyprus Latvia
Andorra Andorra Cyprus
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Source : global health expenditure database
Footnote: For Glossary of Terms : visit the Documentation Center on GHED http://who.int/nha/database/. When the number is smaller than 0.05% the percentage
may appear as zero. For per capita expenditure indicators, when the value is less than 0.5 it is represented as <1. In countries where the fiscal year begins in July,
expenditure data have been allocated to the later calendar year (for example, 2000 data will cover the fiscal year 1999 2000). Care needs to be taken in
interpreting external resource figures. Most are taken from the OECD DAC/CRS database except where a reliable full national health account study has been
done. They are disbursements to recipient countries as reported by donors, lagged one year to account for the delay between disbursement and expenditure.
Before 2002, disbursement data is not available and commitments are used. (latest updates are available on GHED http://who.int/nha/database/).