Health

Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care

5.1 Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care, 2006-2015
Year	Current public expenditure
	Total (€m)	% of GNI	% of GNI*	Per capita at constant 2015 prices (€)
2006	10,817	6.7	6.7	2,668
2007	12,191	7.1	7.2	2,795
2008	13,557	8.3	8.5	2,900
2009	13,748	9.7	9.9	2,914
2010	13,420	9.6	10.1	2,948
2011	13,065	9.4	9.9	2,831
2012	13,410	9.4	10.1	2,853
2013 ¹	13,096	8.5	9.2	2,815
2014	13,265	8.0	8.6	2,880
2015	13,896	6.7	8.0	2,964
Source: CSO
¹ Break in series for 2013, see Appendix 1 for more details.

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.1 (XLS 23KB)

Current public expenditure on health care in Ireland as a proportion of GNI increased from 6.7% in 2006 to 9.7% in 2009 before dropping over the next six years to 6.7% in 2015.

Current public expenditure on health care in Ireland as a proportion of modified GNI (GNI*) increased from 6.7% in 2006 to 10.1% in 2012 before decreasing to 8% in 2015.

Over the time period 2006 to 2015 current public expenditure on health care per person, (at constant 2015 prices), increased by 11%, from €2,668 to €2,964.

	Per capita at constant 2015 prices (euro)
2006	2668.26914284185
2007	2795.26765442386
2008	2900.17936809331
2009	2913.79926770547
2010	2948.22829878157
2011	2831.32493418669
2012	2852.88252680649
2013	2814.60158833039
2014	2879.55917661666
2015	2964.29028542173

EU: Total expenditure1 on health as a percentage of GDP

5.2 EU: Total expenditure¹ on health as a percentage of GDP, 2013-2015
			% of GDP	PPS$ per capita
Country	2013	2014	2015	2015
Ireland (% of GNI*)	13.1	12.5	11.8	3,489
Germany	11.0	11.1	11.2	4,113
Sweden	11.1	11.1	11.0	3,835
France	10.9	11.1	11.0	3,505
Netherlands	10.9	10.9	10.6	3,857
Belgium	10.4	10.4	10.5	3,546
Denmark	10.2	10.3	10.3	3,623
Austria	10.2	10.3	10.3	3,765
United Kingdom	9.9	9.8	9.9	2,910
Finland	9.5	9.5	9.5	3,000
Spain	9.0	9.1	9.2	2,320
Italy	9.0	9.0	9.0	2,459
Portugal	9.1	9.0	9.0	1,959
Greece	8.3	7.9	8.4	1,639
Bulgaria	7.9	8.5	8.2	1,224
Ireland (% of GDP)	10.4	9.9	7.8	3,489
Croatia	7.3	7.5	7.4	1,245
Czech Republic	7.8	7.7	7.2	1,992
Hungary	7.3	7.1	7.2	1,532
Slovakia	7.5	6.9	6.9	1,619
Cyprus	6.9	6.8	6.8	1,590
Estonia	6.0	6.2	6.5	1,458
Lithuania	6.1	6.2	6.5	1,483
Poland	6.4	6.3	6.3	1,396
Luxembourg	6.6	6.3	6.1	4,131
Latvia	5.4	5.5	5.7	1,090
Romania	5.2	5.0	5.0	865
Slovenia	:	8.5	:	:

Norway	8.9	9.4	10.0	4,499
Iceland	8.7	8.8	8.6	2,978
Switzerland	11.2	11.4	:	:
Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure database
¹ Public and private, see Appendix 1 for details of PPS.

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.2 (XLS 28KB)

Current health care expenditure in Ireland was 7.8% of GDP in 2015, the 15th highest proportion in the EU in 2015.

However, when expenditure on health in Ireland is calculated as a % of GNI*, Ireland had the highest rate of expenditure in the EU in 2014.

Seven EU countries spent more than 10% of GDP on current health care expenditure in 2015 while the rate was less than 6% in Latvia and Romania.

Ireland had the ninth highest current expenditure on health care in PPS in 2015 in the EU, with the highest in Luxembourg and the lowest in Romania.

Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex

5.3 Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex, 1925-2012
years
Period	At birth		At 65 years
	Males	Females	Males	Females
1925-1927	57.4	57.9	12.8	13.4
1935-1937	58.2	59.6	12.5	13.1
1940-1942	59.0	61.0	12.3	13.2
1945-1947	60.5	62.4	12.0	13.1
1950-1952	64.5	67.1	12.1	13.3
1960-1962	68.1	71.9	12.6	14.4
1965-1967	68.6	72.9	12.4	14.7
1970-1972	68.8	73.5	12.4	15.0
1978-1980	69.5	75.0	12.4	15.4
1980-1982	70.1	75.6	12.6	15.7
1985-1987	71.0	76.7	12.6	16.2
1990-1992	72.3	77.9	13.4	17.1
1995-1997	73.0	78.5	13.8	17.4
2001-2003	75.1	80.3	15.4	18.7
2005-2007	76.8	81.6	16.6	19.8
2010-2012	78.4	82.8	17.7	20.6
Source: CSO Vital Statistics

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.3 (XLS 10KB)

Life expectancy at birth in Ireland, as calculated by the CSO, increased from under 58 years in 1925-27 for both males and females to 78.4 year for males and 82.8 years for females in 2010-2012.

Between 1926 and 2011 life expectancy at birth in Ireland increased by 21 years for males and 24.9 years for females.

In 1926 life expectancy at birth for females was 0.5 years higher than that for males. This gender gap increased to 5.7 years in 1986 but narrowed slightly to 4.4 years by 2011.

In 2011 a 65 year old man could expect to live for another 17.7 years, an increase of 4.9 years since 1926, while a 65 year old woman could expect to live for another 20.6 years, an increase of 7.2 years over the same time period.

	Males	Females
1926	57.4	57.9
1936	58.2	59.6
1941	59	61
1946	60.5	62.4
1951	64.5	67.1
1961	68.1	71.9
1966	68.6	72.9
1971	68.8	73.5
1979	69.5	75
1981	70.1	75.6
1986	71	76.7
1991	72.3	77.9
1996	73	78.5
2002	75.1	80.3
2006	76.8	81.6
2011	78.4	82.8

EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex

5.4 EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex, 2015
years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Sweden	80.4	84.1	3.7
Italy	80.3	84.9	4.6
Spain	80.1	85.7	5.6
Luxembourg	80.0	84.7	4.7
Cyprus	79.9	83.7	3.8
Netherlands	79.9	83.2	3.3
Malta	79.7	84.0	4.3
Ireland	79.6	83.4	3.8
France	79.2	85.5	6.3
United Kingdom	79.2	82.8	3.6
Denmark	78.8	82.7	3.9
Austria	78.8	83.7	4.9
Belgium	78.7	83.4	4.7
Finland	78.7	84.4	5.7
Greece	78.5	83.7	5.2
Germany	78.3	83.1	4.8
Portugal	78.1	84.3	6.2
EU 28	77.9	83.3	5.4
Slovenia	77.8	83.9	6.1
Czech Republic	75.7	81.6	5.9
Croatia	74.4	80.5	6.1
Poland	73.5	81.6	8.1
Estonia	73.2	82.2	9.0
Slovakia	73.1	80.2	7.1
Hungary	72.3	79.0	6.7
Romania	71.5	78.7	7.2
Bulgaria	71.2	78.2	7.0
Latvia	69.7	79.5	9.8
Lithuania	69.2	79.7	10.5

Iceland	81.2	83.8	2.6
Switzerland	80.8	85.1	4.3
Norway	80.5	84.2	3.7
Albania	76.2	79.7	3.5
Turkey	75.4	81.0	5.6
Montenegro	74.4	78.6	4.2
Macedonia	73.5	77.4	3.9
Serbia	72.8	77.9	5.1
Source: Eurostat

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.4 (XLS 13KB)

Life expectancy at birth for males in Ireland in 2015, as calculated by Eurostat, was 79.6 years, 1.7 years above the EU average of 77.9 years.

Female life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 83.4 years, almost the same as the EU average.

The highest life expectancy in the EU for males was in Sweden at 80.4 years while the highest for females was 85.7 years in Spain.

Life expectancy at birth was higher for females in all EU countries, with the highest difference in Lithuania at 10.5 years while the lowest gap was in the Netherlands at 3.3 years.

In Ireland, life expectancy at birth for females was 3.8 years higher than for males in 2015.

EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex

5.5 EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex, 2015¹
years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Sweden	74.0	73.8	-0.2
Malta	72.6	74.6	2.0
Ireland	66.6	67.9	1.3
Germany	65.3	67.5	2.2
Belgium	64.4	64.0	-0.4
Greece	63.9	64.1	0.2
Spain	63.9	64.1	0.2
Luxembourg	63.7	60.6	-3.1
United Kingdom	63.7	63.3	-0.4
Cyprus	63.1	63.4	0.3
EU 28	62.6	63.3	0.7
France	62.6	64.6	2.0
Italy	62.6	62.7	0.1
Czech Republic	62.4	63.7	1.3
Bulgaria	61.5	65.0	3.5
Netherlands	61.1	57.2	-3.9
Denmark	60.4	57.6	-2.8
Poland	60.1	63.2	3.1
Finland	59.4	56.3	-3.1
Romania	59.0	59.4	0.4
Slovenia	58.5	57.7	-0.8
Hungary	58.2	60.1	1.9
Portugal	58.2	55.0	-3.2
Austria	57.9	58.1	0.2
Croatia	55.3	56.8	1.5
Slovakia	54.8	55.1	0.3
Lithuania	54.1	58.8	4.7
Estonia	53.8	56.2	2.4
Latvia	51.8	54.1	2.3

Norway	71.8	68.9	-2.9
Iceland	71.5	66.2	-5.3
Switzerland	61.4	57.7	-3.7
Source: Eurostat
¹ 2014 data used for Switzerland.

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.5 (XLS 13KB)

Healthy life years at birth in Ireland for males was 66.6 years in 2015, the third highest rate in the EU and four years above the EU average.

Female healthy life years at birth in Ireland in 2015 was 67.9 years, 4.6 years above the EU average and the third highest rate in the EU.

The indicator for healthy life years at birth measures the number of years that a person at birth is expected to live without any severe or moderate health problems and is a composite indicator that combines mortality data with health status data, (see Appendix 1 for more information).

Health life years at birth in the EU in 2015 was highest for males in Sweden at 74 years and for females in Malta at 74.6 years.

Females had longer healthy life expectancies than males in about two-thirds of EU countries.

EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for males

5.6 EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for males, 2015¹
years				%
Country	Life expectancy	Healthy life expectancy	Number of years in poor health	Proportion of life expectancy in poor health
Sweden	80.4	74.0	6.4	8.0
Malta	79.7	72.6	7.1	8.9
Bulgaria	71.2	61.5	9.7	13.6
Ireland	79.6	66.6	13.0	16.3
Germany	78.3	65.3	13.0	16.6
Romania	71.5	59.0	12.5	17.5
Czech Republic	75.7	62.4	13.3	17.6
Belgium	78.7	64.4	14.3	18.2
Poland	73.5	60.1	13.4	18.2
Greece	78.5	63.9	14.6	18.6
Hungary	72.3	58.2	14.1	19.5
United Kingdom	79.2	63.7	15.5	19.6
EU 28	77.9	62.6	15.3	19.6
Spain	80.1	63.9	16.2	20.2
Luxembourg	80.0	63.7	16.3	20.4
France	79.2	62.6	16.6	21.0
Cyprus	79.9	63.1	16.8	21.0
Lithuania	69.2	54.1	15.1	21.8
Italy	80.3	62.6	17.7	22.0
Denmark	78.8	60.4	18.4	23.4
Netherlands	79.9	61.1	18.8	23.5
Finland	78.7	59.4	19.3	24.5
Slovenia	77.8	58.5	19.3	24.8
Slovakia	73.1	54.8	18.3	25.0
Portugal	78.1	58.2	19.9	25.5
Croatia	74.4	55.3	19.1	25.7
Latvia	69.7	51.8	17.9	25.7
Estonia	73.2	53.8	19.4	26.5
Austria	78.8	57.9	20.9	26.5

Norway	80.5	71.8	8.7	10.8
Iceland	81.2	71.5	9.7	11.9
Switzerland	81.8	61.4	19.4	24.3
Source: Eurostat

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.6 (XLS 13KB)

Irish males can expect to live 13 years in poor health, where the number of years in poor health is defined as life expectancy less healthy life expectancy.

Thus, Irish males can expect to live 16.3% of their life expectancy in poor health which was the fourth lowest proportion in the EU in 2015.

Sweden had the lowest proportion of life expectancy in poor health for males at 8% while Austria and Estonia had the highest at 26.5%.

	Healthy life expectancy	Poor health
Sweden	74	6.40000000000001
Malta	72.6	7.10000000000001
Bulgaria	61.5	9.7
Romania	59	12.5
Ireland	66.6	13
Germany	65.3	13
Czech Republic	62.4	13.3
Poland	60.1	13.4
Hungary	58.2	14.1
Belgium	64.4	14.3
Greece	63.9	14.6
Lithuania	54.1	15.1
EU 28	62.6	15.3
United Kingdom	63.7	15.5
Spain	63.9	16.2
Luxembourg	63.7	16.3
France	62.6	16.6
Cyprus	63.1	16.8
Italy	62.6	17.7
Latvia	51.8	17.9
Slovakia	54.8	18.3
Denmark	60.4	18.4
Netherlands	61.1	18.8
Croatia	55.3	19.1
Slovenia	58.5	19.3
Finland	59.4	19.3
Estonia	53.8	19.4
Portugal	58.2	19.9
Austria	57.9	20.9
Norway	71.8	8.7
Iceland	71.5	9.7
Switzerland	61.4	19.4

EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for females

5.7 EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for females, 2015¹
years				%
Country	Life expectancy	Healthy life expectancy	Number of years in poor health	Proportion of life expectancy in poor health
Malta	84.0	74.6	9.4	11.2
Sweden	84.1	73.8	10.3	12.2
Bulgaria	78.2	65.0	13.2	16.9
Ireland	83.4	67.9	15.5	18.6
Germany	83.1	67.5	15.6	18.8
Czech Republic	81.6	63.7	17.9	21.9
Poland	81.6	63.2	18.4	22.5
Belgium	83.4	64.0	19.4	23.3
Greece	83.7	64.1	19.6	23.4
United Kingdom	82.8	63.3	19.5	23.6
Hungary	79.0	60.1	18.9	23.9
EU 28	83.3	63.3	20.0	24.0
Cyprus	83.7	63.4	20.3	24.3
France	85.5	64.6	20.9	24.4
Romania	78.7	59.4	19.3	24.5
Spain	85.7	64.1	21.6	25.2
Italy	84.9	62.7	22.2	26.1
Lithuania	79.7	58.8	20.9	26.2
Luxembourg	84.7	60.6	24.1	28.5
Croatia	80.5	56.8	23.7	29.4
Denmark	82.7	57.6	25.1	30.4
Austria	83.7	58.1	25.6	30.6
Slovenia	83.9	57.7	26.2	31.2
Netherlands	83.2	57.2	26.0	31.3
Slovakia	80.2	55.1	25.1	31.3
Estonia	82.2	56.2	26.0	31.6
Latvia	79.5	54.1	25.4	31.9
Finland	84.4	56.3	28.1	33.3
Portugal	84.3	55.0	29.3	34.8

Norway	84.2	68.9	15.3	18.2
Iceland	83.8	66.2	17.6	21.0
Switzerland	85.4	57.7	27.4	32.4
Source: Eurostat
¹ 2014 data used for Switzerland.

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2016 Table 5.7 (XLS 14KB)

Irish females can expect to live 15.5 years in poor health, where the number of years in poor health is defined as life expectancy less healthy life expectancy.

Thus, Irish females can expect to live 18.6% of their life expectancy in poor health which was the fourth lowest proportion in the EU in 2015.

Malta had the lowest proportion of life expectancy in poor health for females at 11.2% while Portugal had the highest at 34.8%.

	Healthy life expectancy	Poor health
Malta	74.6	9.40000000000001
Sweden	73.8	10.3
Bulgaria	65	13.2
Ireland	67.9	15.5
Germany	67.5	15.6
Czech Republic	63.7	17.9
Poland	63.2	18.4
Hungary	60.1	18.9
Romania	59.4	19.3
Belgium	64	19.4
United Kingdom	63.3	19.5
Greece	64.1	19.6
EU 28	63.3	20
Cyprus	63.4	20.3
France	64.6	20.9
Lithuania	58.8	20.9
Spain	64.1	21.6
Italy	62.7	22.2
Croatia	56.8	23.7
Luxembourg	60.6	24.1
Denmark	57.6	25.1
Slovakia	55.1	25.1
Latvia	54.1	25.4
Austria	58.1	25.6
Netherlands	57.2	26
Estonia	56.2	26
Slovenia	57.7	26.2
Finland	56.3	28.1
Portugal	55	29.3
Norway	68.9	15.3
Iceland	66.2	17.6
Switzerland	57.7	27.4

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Measuring Ireland's Progress 2016

Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care

EU: Total expenditure1 on health as a percentage of GDP

Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex

EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex

EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex

EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for males

EU: Proportion of life expectancy in poor health for females

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