Current healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP provides an indication of the resources committed to healthcare relative to other sectors. Growth in healthcare expenditure in China was driven by increases in real expenditure per prevalent case, excess health price inflation and population growth. The global average for current healthcare expenditure in 2018 was 6.53%.
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Rahul Karan Reddy
Rahul Karan Reddy is a Senior Research Associate at Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA). He works on domestic Chinese politics and trade, producing data-driven research in the form of reports, dashboards and digital media. He is the author of ‘Islands on the Rocks’, a monograph about the Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute between China and Japan. Rahul was previously a research analyst at the Chennai Center for China Studies (C3S). He is the creator of the India-China Trade dashboard and the Chinese Provincial Development Indicators dashboard. His work has been published in The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, ISDP & Tokyo Review, among others. He can be reached via email at [email protected] and @RahulKaranRedd1 on Twitter.