Health services financing and expenditures
In the Nordic countries, health services are mainly financed by the public authorities. In Iceland and Greenland, financing is primarily provided by the government, while financing in the other countries mainly comes from county and/or municipal taxes and block grants from the governments. Except for Greenland, citizens in the Nordic countries contribute directly to the financing, partly through insurance schemes, partly by user charges.
In the Nordic countries, a large percentage of health care expenditure is publicly financed. In the graphs below, please be advised that in case of no visible data columns for one country it indicates no available data that year for that country. Furthermore, that many more data are available in the database.
It could be speculated that the reason for the developments in data might be due to inflation rather than that the GDP being higher. Also whether it is indexed or running prices that are used in the method of calculation.