Household consumption expenditure on health in France attained a value of $55.9 billion in 2020. It recorded a decline of 4.6% in 2020 compared to the previous year. Between 2010-2020, household consumption expenditure on health in France decreased by 6.8%. The indicator in France was highest in the year 2011 and lowest in the year 2015, between 2010 and 2020.
This indicator refers to household consumption expenditure on health. Data includes expenditures incurred by resident households on health, which includes spending on medical and pharmaceutical products, healthcare services (physicians, hospitals, and nursing homes), and paramedical services. Data is primarily sourced from household budget surveys, consumer expenditure, and national accounts datasets, hence there may be definitional or methodological differences between countries.
According to GlobalData, the countries with the highest household consumption expenditure on health in 2020 were the United States, Germany, France, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Canada, Spain, Mexico, and Poland.
Montenegro, Mongolia, Iceland, Malta, Namibia, Cyprus, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Luxembourg, and Latvia were some of the countries with the lowest household consumption expenditure on health in 2020.
Between 2010 and 2020, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Thailand, Estonia, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, and Malta were some of the countries with the highest growth in household consumption expenditure on health. Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Namibia, France, Portugal, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and Italy were some of the countries with the lowest growth in household consumption expenditure on health.
According to the WHO, global spending on health has more than doubled in real terms in the last two decades. Government spending predominated in high-income countries, whereas out-of-pocket spending and foreign aid accounted for the majority of health spending in low-income nations. In the last two decades, out-of-pocket expenditure increased across all income categories on a per capita basis but decreased as a share of the overall health spending.
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