Can Population Aging Explain Rising Healthcare Spending Across Countries?

Siddhartha Sanghi

Economic Synopses, 2022, issue 20, 3 pages

Abstract: A low-income country spends about 5.3% of its output on healthcare, while a higher-income country spends closer to 7.5% of its output on healthcare.

Keywords: population aging; healthcare spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.20955/es.2022.20

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