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Covid-19 - The 2020 edition of the online database is still planned to be released end of June, as usual in spite of the current situation. We will keep our users informed of any delays on this page.

The online database OECD Health Statistics 2019 has been updated on November 15. 

The OECD Health Database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.

Access all datasets in the 2019 online database

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Health Expenditure and Financing

Health Status

Non-Medical Determinants of Health

Health Care Resources

Health Workforce Migration

Health Care Utilisation

Health Care Quality Indicators

Pharmaceutical Market

Long-term Care Resources and Utilisation

Social Protection

Demographic References

Economic References

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A selection of key indicators in Excel, from the online database, updated on 15 November 2019

• Since 2009, average health spending as a share of GDP has remained relatively stable across the OECD at around 8.8%, as growth in health spending has remained in line with overall economic growth since the economic crisis.
  
  
• At 17.1%, the United States spent the highest share of GDP on health in 2017, while Turkey allocated around 4.2% of its GDP in the same year.

Avoidable mortality

Access the information on the new 2019 OECD/Eurostat joint lists of avoidable mortality, including the definitions and selected preventable and treatable causes of death.

New - The data on avoidable mortality are now available in OECD.Stat (February 2020).

Access the full information on Definitions, Sources and Methods, as available in OECD.Stat but from one single user-friendly document

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The full list of indicators available in the online database, in English and in French