OECD Health Data 2012 is out [View all]

[Kennah]

http://www.oecd.org/health/healthdata

If you go to the Frequently Requested Data, there is an Excel spreadsheet one can download.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/42/49188719.xls

In it, one can find "Total expenditure on health, % of gross domestic product"

The OECD nation average is 9.5% of GDP. Turkey is the lowest at 6.1% of GDP. Netherlands is the second highest at 12% of GDP.

Coming in at #1, ever since 1980, is the United States at 17.6% of GDP. Almost triple that of Turkey, almost double that of the OECD average, almost 50% more than the next highest nation the Netherlands.

In the past, OECD published this in a bar chart. Here is 2009 data. I do wish they would add it back, unless it's there for 2010 and I cannot find it.