Health expenditure Australia 2015–16

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Release Date: 06 Oct 2017
Author: AIHW
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Total spending on health in Australia was $170.4 billion in 2015–16, $6.0 billion (3.6%) higher in real terms than in 2014–15. This was the fourth consecutive year that growth was below the 10 year average of 4.7%.

Despite the low growth, the share of the economy (GDP) represented by health (10.3%) continued to grow, due to slower real GDP growth (2.7%).

ISSN: 2205-6610 (PDF) 1323-5850 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-206-1
Cat. no: HWE 68
Pages: 135

Findings from this report:

Non government expenditure decreased as a proportion of expenditure from 33.1% to 32.7% from 2014–15 to 2015–16
Public hospital expenditure by state and territory governments was $26.8 billion in 2015–16, up 3.8% from 2014–15
Due to low GDP growth, health’s share of GDP has risen to 10.3%, driven mostly by higher prices
State and territory contributions ($44.4 billion, 26.1% of total) drove growth in the government expenditure share

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