International Comparison of Health Financing Schemes

This interactive dashboard enables comprehensive analysis of global health financing mechanisms across all WHO members economies plus Hong Kong. Explore detailed visualizations comparing public, compulsory private, and private financing models through multiple analytical lenses:

  • Compare financing structures via interactive scatter plots and sortable tables
  • Filter by income level (Low to High)
  • Examine subgroup breakdowns of each financing category

Our data integrates the latest statistics from WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, OECD Health Expenditure dataset (2020-2022), information from the government's websites of each economy and Hong Kong's Domestic Health Accounts from the Health Bureau, HKSAR. The statistics are standardized under the SHA2011 framework. This tool supports policymakers, researchers, and analysts in benchmarking health systems and identifying financing trends.

Points on Data Interpretation

According to classifications of financing schemes under SHA2011, the following table distinguishes schemes that are classified as "Public" versus "Private", but leaves the analysts to decide whether the "Compulsory Private" schemes as either public or private.

Public Compulsory Private Private
HF.1.1 Government financing scheme
HF.1.2.1 Social health insurance 		HF.1.2.2 Compulsory private health insurance
HF.1.3 Compulsory medical saving accounts 		HF.2 Voluntary health care payment schemes, including
  HF.2.1 Voluntary health insurance
  HF.2.2 NPISH-financing schemes
  HF.2.3 Enterprise financing schemes
HF.3 Household out-of-pocket payment
HF.4 Rest of the world financing programme

For all economies across the world, their respective % share of Current Health Expenditure (CHE) for "public" versus "private" schemes are visualized as a dot on the X-Y plot in Figure 1 whereas "public" versus "compulsory private" in Figure 2.

  • In Figure 1, if the dot lies on the diagonal (from X=100% to Y=100%), it means that that economy does not have any "compulsory private" scheme, hence the X and Y coordinates add up to 100% of CHE. Otherwise, the difference between 100% and the sum of X and Y coordinates is equal to the % CHE share of "compulsory private" schemes, that is concurrently shown on Y-axis in Figure 2.
  • For those dots lie below the diagonal in Figure 1, the closer they are located towards the origin, the higher the % share of CHE for "compulsory private" that is indicated on Y-axis in Figure 2.
Metrics on health expenditure by Public, Compulsory Private and Private financing schemes

A metrics for international comparison is presented to display the % share of CHE across the three categories of financing schemes namely, "Public", " Compulsory Private" and "Private", each with subgroup breakdowns by specific type. You can filter the metrics by income level and sort the display of economies by either broad or subgroup level of the financing scheme classification.

Click any row on the metrics to obtain more detailed information and related statistics related to the structure and arrangements by financing schemes and funding sources etc. of each individual economy.

Economies Income Group Public (% CHE) Compulsory Private (% CHE) Private (% CHE)