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Health: Romania investing the least in the EU

Low share of GDP also in Baltic States and Poland

03 December, 18:59
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 03 DIC - Romania is the EU country with the lowest expenditure as percentage of gross domestic product in terms of health care, recent data from Eurostat show. In 2016, Romania invested only 5.0% of its GDP for health care, followed by Luxembourg (6.2%) and by other Central- and Eastern European countries, including Latvia (6.2%), Poland (6.5%), Lithuania and Estonia (6.7%). Relative low expenditure in the health sector was recorded also in Slovakia and Czechia (7.1%), Croatia (7.2%), Hungary (7.4%) and Bulgaria (8.2%).

In terms of health care expenditure as a percentage of GDP, the highest figures recorded in 2016 were registered in France (11.5 %), Germany (11.1 %) and Sweden (10.9 %), Eurostat said.

In absolute terms, the highest health care expenditure per inhabitant was registered in Luxembourg (5,600 euros), Sweden (5,100) and Denmark (5,000), the lowest in Romania (400), Bulgaria (600) and Poland (700). (ANSA).

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