Health Measuring Ireland's Progress 2013 - Central Statistics Office

Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care

5.1 Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care, 2004-2013

	Current public expenditure
Year	Total (€m)	% of GNI	% of GDP	Per capita at constant 2012 prices (€)
2004	9,653	7.2	6.2	2,773
2005b	11,160	7.6	6.6	3,026
2006	12,248	7.6	6.7	3,092
2007	13,736	8.0	7.0	3,223
2008	14,588	9.0	7.8	3,193
2009	15,073	10.7	9.0	3,269
2010	14,452	10.3	8.8	3,249
2011	13,728	9.8	8.0	3,044
2012	13,787	9.7	8.0	3,007
2013	13,492	9.1	7.7	2,973
Source: Department of Health, CSO
b: Break in series. See Appendix 1 for more details.

Current public expdenditure on health care in Ireland as a proportion of GNI increased strongly over the period 2004-2009, from 7.2% to 10.7%, before falling over the following four years to stand at 9.1% in 2013.
An average of €2,773 per person was spent on current public expenditure on health care in Ireland in 2004 (at constant 2012 prices). This expenditure increased steadily to €3,223 per person in 2007.
There was a small decrease in 2008 followed by an increase in 2009 to €3,269. By 2013, however, current public expenditure on health care per person decreased to €2,973.
Over the time period 2004 to 2013 current public expenditure on health care per person (at constant 2012 prices) increased by 7.2%.

	Per capita at constant 2012 prices (euro)
2004	2773.34602998927
2005	3025.77224747679
2006	3091.52951387353
2007	3222.82999657391
2008	3193.35595134611
2009	3268.90974563172
2010	3248.75974723222
2011	3044.24056552625
2012	3006.7169712566
2013	2973.42813315111

5.2 EU: Total expenditure¹ on health as a percentage of GDP, 2010-2012
	% of GDP			PPS$ per capita
Country	2010	2011	2012	2012
Netherlands	12.1	11.9	12.4	5,385
France	11.7	11.6	11.7	4,260
Austria	11.6	11.3	11.5	5,065
Germany	11.5	11.3	11.3	4,617
Denmark	11.1	10.9	11.2	4,720
Belgium	10.5	10.5	10.8	4,320
Ireland (% of GNI)	11.1	10.8	9.9	3,529
Spain	9.6	9.3	9.6	3,145
Sweden	9.5	9.5	9.6	4,158
Portugal	10.8	10.2	9.4	2,400
United Kingdom	9.6	9.4	9.4	3,495
Greece	9.4	9.0	9.3	2,346
Italy	9.4	9.2	9.2	3,040
Finland	9.0	9.0	9.1	3,545
Malta	8.5	8.7	9.1	2,548
Slovenia	8.9	8.9	8.8	2,420
Ireland (% of GDP)	9.3	8.8	8.1	3,529
Hungary	8.0	7.9	7.8	1,729
Slovakia	9.0	7.9	7.8	1,977
Czech Republic	7.4	7.5	7.7	2,046
Bulgaria	7.6	7.3	7.4	1,177
Cyprus	7.4	7.4	7.3	2,266
Luxembourg	7.2	6.7	6.9	6,341
Croatia	7.8	6.8	6.8	1,410
Poland	7.0	6.8	6.7	1,489
Lithuania	7.0	6.7	6.7	1,426
Latvia	6.5	6.0	6.0	1,188
Estonia	6.3	5.8	5.9	1,385
Romania	5.9	5.6	5.1	873

Switzerland	10.9	11.0	11.3	6,062
Iceland	9.4	9.2	9.1	3,436
Norway	10.0	9.9	9.0	5,970
Macedonia	7.0	6.9	7.1	835
Turkey	6.8	6.1	6.3	1,144
Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure database
¹ Public and private, see Appendix 1 for details of PPS.

Total expenditure on health in Ireland was 8.1% of GDP in 2012, the sixteenth highest rate of expenditure in the EU.
However, when expenditure on health in Ireland is calculated as a % of GNI, Ireland had the seventh highest rate of expenditure in the EU in 2012.
Six countries spent more than 10% of their GDP on health expenditure, (the Netherlands, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Belgium), while the rate was less than 6% in Romania and Estonia.
Ireland had the tenth highest expenditure on health in PPS $ per capita in 2012 in the EU, with the highest in Luxembourg and the lowest in Romania.

5.3 Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex, 1925-2007

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
Source: CSO Vital Statistics

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 76.8 years for males and 81.6 years for females in 2005-2007.
Over the same period, there was an increase of 3.8 years in the life expectancy of men aged 65 compared with an increase of 6.4 years in the life expectancy of older women.
In 1925-27 life expectancy at birth for females was 0.5 years higher than that for males. By 2005-2007 this gap had increased to 4.8 years.

5.4 EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex, 2012

years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Sweden	79.9	83.6	-3.7
Italy	79.8	84.8	-5.0
Spain	79.5	85.5	-6.0
Netherlands	79.3	83.0	-3.7
Luxembourg	79.1	83.8	-4.7
United Kingdom	79.1	82.8	-3.7
Cyprus	78.9	83.4	-4.5
Ireland	78.7	83.2	-4.5
France	78.7	85.4	-6.7
Germany	78.6	83.3	-4.7
Malta	78.6	83.0	-4.4
Austria	78.4	83.6	-5.2
Denmark	78.1	82.1	-4.0
Greece	78.0	83.4	-5.4
Belgium	77.8	83.1	-5.3
Finland	77.7	83.7	-6.0
EU	77.5	83.1	-5.6
Portugal	77.3	83.6	-6.3
Slovenia	77.1	83.3	-6.2
Czech Republic	75.1	81.2	-6.1
Croatia	73.9	80.6	-6.7
Poland	72.7	81.1	-8.4
Slovakia	72.5	79.9	-7.4
Hungary	71.6	78.7	-7.1
Estonia	71.4	81.5	-10.1
Romania	71.0	78.1	-7.1
Bulgaria	70.9	77.9	-7.0
Latvia	68.9	78.9	-10.0
Lithuania	68.4	79.6	-11.2

Iceland	81.6	84.3	-2.7
Switzerland	80.6	84.9	-4.3
Norway	79.5	83.5	-4.0
Turkey	74.8	80.5	-5.7
Macedonia	73.0	76.9	-3.9
Source: Eurostat

Life expectancy at birth for males in Ireland in 2012, as calculated by Eurostat, was 78.7 years, 1.2 years higher than the EU average. Female life expectancy at birth in 2012 was 83.2 years in Ireland, just above the EU average of 83.1 years.
Life expectancy at birth in the EU in 2012 for males was highest in Sweden at 79.9 years and for females was highest in Spain at 85.5 years.
Life expectancy at birth was higher for females in all EU countries with the highest difference in Lithuania at 11.2 years while the lowest was 3.7 years in the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Life expectancy at birth for females in Ireland is 4.5 years higher than that for males.
Life expectancy at birth for males and females in Ireland has risen steadily over the time period 2003 to 2012, from 75.7 to 78.7 years for males and from 80.7 to 83.2 years for females, (see chart for data.)

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