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Austerity in Europe also led to the decrease of total health expenditure
in countries like Spain, the United Kingdom or Italy, but that reduction was
sharper in Portugal and Latvia (Fig. 3.2). Despite being among the top spenders
on health care as a percentage of GDP, even after the Economic and Financial
Adjustment Programme, Portugal spent US$ 2689.9 per capita (purchasing
power parity) in 2014, which is below the EU average of US$ 3379 (purchasing
power parity) (Fig. 3.3).
Fig. 3.2
Trends in total health expenditure as a share (%) of GDP in Portugal and selected
countries, 1990–2014
Source
: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2016.
Between 2010 and 2014, there was a significant decrease in general
government health expenditure in Portugal (–9.7%). Measuring general
government health expenditure as a share of general government expenditure,
Portugal is below the EU average (Fig. 3.5).
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