Does More Money Spent on Health Equate to a Higher Life Expectancy?
Although intuitively, one might expect that with more money spent on health, one gets a longer life expectancy. However, in some countries, it takes more money to get the same amount of additional life expectancy as other countries.
Graph 1: Visualizing each country's health care expenditure per capita divided by their life expectancy.
Measured as US Dollars Spent on Health per year of Life Expectancy
This graph plots a country's health care expenditure per capita divided by their life expectancy. The higher this score, the less "efficient" the money is being used to provide health care and improve life expectancy. The highest scores are red, while the lowest scores are white.
The Cost of a Year of Life
US Dollars spent per person on healthcare per year of life expectancy
Graph 2: Visualizing each country's life expectancy versus their expenditure on health care per capita.
This graph plots a country's average life expectancy at birth in 2019 against average expenditure on health care per person in USD (average of expenditure from 2015-2019). As you can see, there is a general trend where the more countries spent on healthcare per person, the higher the life expectancy is. The United States is notable for having the same life expectancy as some countries but still spending around five times more per person.