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Health accounts

Updated: 19 October 2023

Next update: Not yet determined

Health care costs per inhabitant

2022

83 084

NOK

Health Expenditure. Key Figures^{1 2}
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Current health expenditure	328 134	339 948	356 241	375 450	395 456	424 360	453 401
Current health expenditure per capita	62 667	64 421	67 065	70 205	73 512	78 464	83 084
Health expenditure in constant 2015 prices	320 329	323 113	325 524	331 638	325 176	335 890	341 343
Current expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015. Percentage change in volume from the previous year	1	0.9	0.7	1.9	-1.9	3.3	1.6
Expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015 per capita	61 176	61 231	61 282	62 013	60 448	62 106	62 550
Expenditure on health at constant NOK in 2015 per capita. Percentage change in volume from the previous year		0.1	0.1	1.2	-2.5	2.7	0.7

Current health expenditure financed by public sources	280 159	289 366	305 311	321 825	339 961	364 531	388 466
Current health expenditure financed by private sources	47 975	50 582	50 930	53 626	55 495	59 830	64 935

Share of health expenditure financed by public sources. Per cent	85.4	85.1	85.7	85.7	86.0	85.9	85.7
Share of health expenditure financed by private sources. Per cent	14.6	14.9	14.3	14.3	14.0	14.1	14.3
Public share of health spending in per cent of general government total expenditure	17.8	17.7	17.9	17.8	17.3	18.2	18.1

Current health expenditure. Per cent of GDP	10.5	10.2	10.0	10.4	11.4	10.1	8.1
Current health expenditure. Per cent of GDP Mainland Norway	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.2	12.9	12.9	12.7

Total capital formation of health care providers	21 745	20 915	23 068	28 413	31 259	35 175	38 241
¹Figures for the two last years are preliminary.
²Current health expenditure does not include capital formation

Explanation of symbols

Source

StatBank source table 10814

StatBank source table 10812

StatBank source table 09189

StatBank source table 10721

StatBank source table 03037

More figures from this statistics

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About the statistics

The municipal health care service statistics include information about general practitioners, physiotherapists, public health centres, school health services, healthy life centres, other preventive health care and expenditures.

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 6 January 2021.