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The online database OECD Health Statistics 2020 has been released on July 1st. 

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 2020 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.

• In 2019, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, average health spending as a share of GDP across the OECD was around 8.8%. This figure has remained largely stable since 2009 as growth in health spending remained in line with overall economic growth since the last economic crisis.
  
  
• At 17.0%, it is estimated that the United States spent the highest share of GDP on health in 2019, while Turkey allocated around 4.4% of its GDP in the same year.

Avoidable mortality

• Avoidable mortality data are available in OECD.Stat (updated in July 2020).
• 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.

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