Health expenditure Australia 2015–16

Public hospital expenditure by the Australian Government grew 8.4% in real terms from 2014–15 to 2015–16

State and territory contributions ($44.4 billion, 26.1% of total) drove growth in the government expenditure share

Due to low GDP growth, health’s share of GDP has risen to 10.3%, driven mostly by higher prices

Non government expenditure decreased as a proportion of expenditure from 33.1% to 32.7% from 2014–15 to 2015–16