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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 2013 prices (€)
2004	8,903	6.6	5.7	2,538
2005	10,265	7.0	6.0	2,761
2006	10,817	6.6	5.8	2,709
2007	12,191	7.1	6.2	2,838
2008	13,557	8.3	7.2	2,944
2009	13,748	9.7	8.1	2,958
2010	13,420	9.5	8.1	2,993
2011	13,065	9.1	7.5	2,874
2012	13,410	9.3	7.7	2,901
2013^b	13,082	8.5	7.3	2,848
Source: Department of Health, CSO
^b Break in series for 2013, see Appendix 1 for more details.

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Current public expenditure on health care in Ireland as a proportion of GNI increased strongly over the period 2004-2009, from 6.6% to 9.7%, before decreasing over the following four years to stand at 8.5% in 2013.
An average of €2,538 per person was spent on current public expenditure on health care in Ireland in 2004 (at constant 2013 prices). This expenditure increased steadily to €2,993 per person in 2010. By 2013, however, current public expenditure on health care per person decreased to €2,848.
Over the time period 2004 to 2013 current public expenditure on health care per person, (at constant 2013 prices), increased by 12.2%.

	Per capita at constant 2013 prices (euro)
2005	2537.52601827778
2006	2760.90650647022
2007	2708.62925637846
2008	2837.69498041856
2009	2943.9594364336
2010	2957.87642407927
2011	2992.61417105897
2012	2874.10198570839
2013	2901.10620564226
2014	2848.27623107765

EU: Total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP

5.2 EU: Total expenditure¹ on health as a percentage of GDP, 2011-2013

			% of GDP	PPS$ per capita
Country	2011	2012	2013	2013
Netherlands	12.1	12.7	12.9	5,601
France	11.5	11.6	11.7	4,334
Germany	11.2	11.3	11.3	4,812
Belgium	10.6	10.9	11.2	4,526
Austria	10.9	11.1	11.0	4,885
Denmark	10.9	11.0	10.6	4,552
Ireland (% of GNI)	10.6	10.7	10.5	3,867
Greece	9.8	9.3	9.8	2,513
Sweden	9.5	9.6	9.7	4,244
Portugal	10.4	9.9	9.7	2,508
Finland	8.9	9.1	9.4	3,604
Slovenia	9.1	9.4	9.2	2,595
United Kingdom	9.2	9.3	9.1	3,311
Italy	9.2	9.2	9.1	3,126
Ireland (% of GDP)	8.7	8.9	8.9	3,867
Spain	9.4	9.3	8.9	2,846
Malta	9.5	8.7	8.7	2,652
Slovakia	8.0	8.1	8.2	2,147
Hungary	8.0	8.0	8.0	1,839
Bulgaria	7.4	7.4	7.6	1,213
Cyprus	7.6	7.4	7.4	2,197
Croatia	7.3	7.3	7.3	1,517
Czech Republic	7.5	7.5	7.2	1,982
Luxembourg	7.4	7.2	7.1	6,518
Poland	6.9	6.8	6.7	1,551
Lithuania	6.9	6.7	6.2	1,579
Estonia	5.8	5.9	5.7	1,453
Latvia	6.1	5.9	5.7	1,310
Romania	5.6	5.6	5.3	988

Switzerland	11.1	11.4	11.5	6,187
Norway	9.3	9.3	9.6	6,308
Iceland	9.0	9.0	9.1	3,646
Macedonia	6.7	6.9	6.4	759
Turkey	5.3	5.4	5.6	1,053
		Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure database

¹ Public and private, see Appendix 1 for details of PPS.

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Total expenditure on health in Ireland was 8.9% of GDP in 2013, the fourteenth 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 2013.
Six countries spent more than 10% of their GDP on health expenditure, (the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Denmark), while the rate was less than 6% in Estonia, Latvia and Romania.
Ireland had the ninth highest expenditure on health in PPS $ per capita in 2013 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

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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 years 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.

Show Graph - Ireland: Life expectancy at birth, 1926 - 2011

	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, 2013¹

years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Spain	80.2	86.1	-5.9
France	79.0	85.6	-6.6
Italy	80.3	85.2	-4.9
Cyprus	80.1	85.0	-4.9
Finland	78.0	84.1	-6.1
Greece	78.7	84.0	-5.3
Malta	79.6	84.0	-4.4
Portugal	77.6	84.0	-6.4
Luxembourg	79.8	83.9	-4.1
Austria	78.6	83.8	-5.2
Sweden	80.2	83.8	-3.6
Slovenia	77.2	83.6	-6.4
Belgium	78.1	83.2	-5.1
Germany	78.6	83.2	-4.6
Netherlands	79.5	83.2	-3.7
EU 28	77.4	83.1	-5.7
Ireland	79.0	83.1	-4.1
United Kingdom	79.1	82.8	-3.7
Denmark	78.3	82.4	-4.1
Estonia	72.8	81.7	-8.9
Czech Republic	75.2	81.3	-6.1
Poland	73.0	81.2	-8.2
Croatia	74.5	81.0	-6.5
Slovakia	72.9	80.1	-7.2
Lithuania	68.5	79.6	-11.1
Hungary	72.2	79.1	-6.9
Latvia	69.3	78.9	-9.6
Romania	71.6	78.7	-7.1
Bulgaria	71.3	78.6	-7.3

Switzerland	80.7	85.0	-4.3
Norway	79.8	83.8	-4.0
Iceland	80.5	83.7	-3.2
Turkey	75.4	81.1	-5.7
Macedonia	73.4	77.5	-4.1
Source: Eurostat
¹ 2012 data used for EU28 and the United Kingdom.

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Life expectancy at birth for females in Ireland in 2013, as calculated by Eurostat, was 83.1 years, the same as the EU average. Male life expectancy at birth in 2013 was 79 years, 1.6 years above the EU average.
Life expectancy at birth in the EU in 2013 for females was highest in Spain at 86.1 years and for males was highest in Italy at 80.3 years.
Life expectancy at birth was higher for females in all EU countries with the highest different in Lithuania at 11.1 years while the lowest gap was 3.6 years in Sweden.
Life expectancy at birth for females in Ireland was 4.1 years higher than that for males.

	males	females
2004	76.1	81.1
2005	76.7	81.3
2006	76.9	81.7
2007	77.3	82.1
2008	77.9	82.4
2009	77.8	82.7
2010	78.5	83.1
2011	78.6	83
2012	78.7	83.2
2013	79	83.1

EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex

5.5 EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex, 2013

years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Malta	71.6	72.7	-1.1
Ireland	65.8	68.0	-2.2
Bulgaria	62.4	66.6	-4.2
Sweden	66.9	66.0	0.9
Greece	64.7	65.1	-0.4
Cyprus	64.3	65.0	-0.7
United Kingdom	64.4	64.8	-0.4
France	63.0	64.4	-1.4
Czech Republic	62.5	64.2	-1.7
Spain	64.7	63.9	0.8
Belgium	64.0	63.7	0.3
Luxembourg	63.8	62.9	0.9
Poland	59.2	62.7	-3.5
Portugal	63.9	62.2	1.7
Lithuania	56.8	61.6	-4.8
EU 28	61.4	61.5	-0.1
Italy	61.8	60.9	0.9
Croatia	57.6	60.4	-2.8
Austria	59.7	60.2	-0.5
Hungary	59.1	60.1	-1.0
Slovenia	57.6	59.5	-1.9
Denmark	60.4	59.1	1.3
Romania	58.6	57.9	0.7
Netherlands	61.4	57.5	3.9
Estonia	53.9	57.1	-3.2
Germany	57.8	57.0	0.8
Finland	57.3	56.2	1.1
Slovakia	54.5	54.3	0.2
Latvia	51.7	54.2	-2.5

Norway	71.0	68.6	2.4
Iceland	71.7	66.7	5.0
Switzerland	61.5	58.4	3.1
Source: Eurostat

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Healthy life years at birth in Ireland for females was 68 years in 2013, the second highest rate in the EU and 6.5 years above the EU average.
Male healthy life years at birth in Ireland in 2013 was 65.8 years, 4.4 years higher than 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).
Healthy life years at birth for males and females in the EU in 2013 was highest in Malta at 71.6 years for males and at 72.7 years for females.
Healthy life years for females in Ireland rose from 64.2 years in 2004 to 68.5 years in 2012, before falling back slightly to 68 years in 2013, (see graph).
For males in Ireland, healthy life years at birth rose from 62.5 years in 2004 to 66.1 years by 2011, falling slightly to 65.8 years in 2013, (see graph).

	Males	Females
2004	62.5	64.2
2005	62.9	64
2006	63.2	64.9
2007	62.9	65.6
2008	63.5	65.1
2009	63.9	65.2
2010	65.9	66.9
2011	66.1	68.3
2012	65.9	68.5
2013	65.8	68

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