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<title>Our World in Data - Healthcare Spending</title>
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<updated>2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <title>Mental health care is scarce everywhere — but in poor countries, it barely exists</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/mental-health-care-is-scarce-everywhere-but-in-poor-countries-it-barely-exists</id>
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    <published>2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/mental-health-care-is-scarce-everywhere-but-in-poor-countries-it-barely-exists"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/418546ff-79c4-49e2-0b5b-afee07627b00/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Health spending has been rising across rich countries with different systems</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/health-spending-has-been-rising-across-rich-countries-with-different-systems</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/health-spending-has-been-rising-across-rich-countries-with-different-systems"/>
    <published>2025-03-13T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Simon van Teutem</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/health-spending-has-been-rising-across-rich-countries-with-different-systems"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/d8aa2580-ea76-4fd0-b66d-c9e433bb0900/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>The United States spends a lot more on healthcare per person than other G7 nations</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-united-states-spends-a-lot-more-on-healthcare-per-person-than-other-g7-nations</id>
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    <published>2025-03-06T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Simon van Teutem</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-united-states-spends-a-lot-more-on-healthcare-per-person-than-other-g7-nations"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/c7992363-2e2c-44e4-8a8a-9ff81f8e6700/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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<entry>
    <title>Rich countries spend 60 times as much on healthcare per person than poor countries</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-spend-60-times-as-much-on-healthcare-per-person-than-poor-countries</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-spend-60-times-as-much-on-healthcare-per-person-than-poor-countries"/>
    <published>2024-12-23T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-spend-60-times-as-much-on-healthcare-per-person-than-poor-countries"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/8be2aa0e-e896-42a3-dbdb-16bd282f4c00/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Rich countries have ten times as many doctors per person as poor ones</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-have-ten-times-as-many-doctors-per-person-as-poor-ones</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-have-ten-times-as-many-doctors-per-person-as-poor-ones"/>
    <published>2024-12-19T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-have-ten-times-as-many-doctors-per-person-as-poor-ones"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/134c0792-5035-4ad7-9840-dec15d4cee00/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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<entry>
    <title>Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low</id>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low"/>
    <published>2020-10-29T17:28:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/d0479ff8-6189-4bd4-51fe-0401c004da00/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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<entry>
    <title>Healthcare Spending</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare</id>
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    <published>2017-06-16T14:55:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Esteban Ortiz-Ospina</name></author><author><name>Pablo Arriagada</name></author><author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How is healthcare financed? How much do we spend on it? What are the returns?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/financing-healthcare"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/58ba72cd-027a-41cf-504d-589920690e00/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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