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(a) Per 1,000 live births.
(b) Medium variant projection.
(c) Healthy life expectancy is based on life expectancy, but indicates an adjustment for time spent in poor health. This indicator measures the equivalent number of years in full health that a newborn child can expect to live based on current mortality rates and prevalence distribution of health states in the population.
Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision, last viewed 17 May 2006,
<<http://esa.un.org/unpp/>>; The World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2004: Changing History, last viewed 23 May 2006, <http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/annex4.xls>.
HEALTH SERVICES AND EXPENDITURE
Reference year
Health expenditure as % of GDP
Health expenditure per capita(a)
Reference
year
Doctors per 1,000
population
Reference
year
Acute hospital beds per 1,000 population
Country
%
$US '000
no.
no.
Australia
2003
9.5
2.9
2003
2.5
2003
3.6
Canada
2003
9.9
3.0
2003
2.1
2003
3.2
China
2003
5.6
0.3
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
France
2003
10.1
2.9
2003
3.4
2003
3.8
Greece
2003
9.9
2.0
2003
4.4
. .
n.a.
Hong Kong (SAR of China)
. .
n.a.
n.a.
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
Indonesia
2003
3.1
0.1
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
Italy
2003
8.4
2.3
2003
4.1
2003
3.9
Japan
2003
7.9
2.2
2003
2.0
2003
8.5
Korea (Republic of)
2003
5.6
1.1
2003
1.6
2003
5.9
Malaysia
2003
3.8
0.4
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
New Zealand
2003
8.1
1.9
2003
2.2
. .
n.a.
Papua New Guinea
2003
3.4
0.1
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
Singapore
2003
4.5
1.2
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
Sweden
2003
9.4
2.7
2003
3.3
2003
2.4
United Kingdom
2003
8.0
2.4
2003
2.2
2003
3.7
United States of America
2003
15.2
5.7
2003
2.3
2003
2.8
Viet Nam
2003
5.4
0.2
. .
n.a.
. .
n.a.
(a) The per capita values are presented in international dollar estimates (using US dollars), derived by dividing each country's health expenditure by an estimate of its purchasing power parity (PPP) compared with US dollars, i.e. a rate or measure that minimises the consequences of differences in price levels existing between countries.