Only five countries in the EU spent less on health in 2020 – in total – than Poland. We are doing very badly when it comes to spending per capita, we are doing badly when analyzing the percentage of public spending - here we took the last place in the first year of the pandemic.
The OECD and the European Commission have published the report "Health at a Glance. Europe 2022”. Other European countries, not just EU members, are also included in the report.
Basic conclusion: Poland is one of the countries where current expenditure on health is among the lowest or in some aspects is even the lowest in the EU.
What is the total health expenditure per capita? The average for the EU is EUR 3,159, and in Poland - EUR 1,591. We are sixth from the bottom, narrowly ahead of Latvia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, the latter spending €1,428. In the first year o...
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