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Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care, 2005-2014

5.1 Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care, 2005-2014

	Current public expenditure
Year	Total (€m)	% of GNI	% of GDP	Per capita at constant 2014 prices (€)
2005	10,265	7.0	6.0	2,698
2006	10,817	6.7	5.8	2,647
2007	12,191	7.1	6.2	2,773
2008	13,557	8.3	7.2	2,877
2009	13,748	9.7	8.1	2,891
2010	13,420	9.6	8.0	2,925
2011	13,065	9.3	7.5	2,809
2012	13,410	9.3	7.6	2,835
2013^b	13,096	8.6	7.3	2,805
2014	13,265	8.1	6.9	2,878
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 from 7% in 2005 to 9.7% in 2009, before decreasing over the next five years to stand at 8.1% in 2014.
An average of €2,698 per person was spent on current public expenditure on health care in Ireland in 2005 (at constant 2014 prices). This expenditure increased to €2,925 in 2010 and then dropped to €2,878 by 2014.
Over the time period 2005 to 2014 current public expenditure on health care per person, (at constant 2014 prices), increased by 6.7%.

	Per capita at constant 2014 prices (euro)
2005	2698.17210750685
2006	2646.93915928344
2007	2773.05686755685
2008	2877.07851146075
2009	2890.54510238206
2010	2924.76833677048
2011	2808.82020356637
2012	2835.30006194831
2013	2804.81015916796
2014	2877.69003818119

EU: Total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP, 2012-2014

5.2 EU: Total expenditure¹ on health as a percentage of GDP, 2012-2014

% of GDP				PPS$ per capita
Country	2012	2013	2014	2014
Sweden	11.8	12.0	11.9	5,219
France	11.4	11.6	11.5	4,508
Germany	11.0	11.2	11.3	5,182
Austria	11.2	11.1	11.2	5,039
Netherlands	11.0	11.0	10.9	5,202
Denmark	11.0	11.2	10.8	4,782
Belgium	10.5	10.6	10.6	4,392
Malta	10.0	9.9	9.7	3,072
Finland	9.3	9.5	9.7	3,701
Portugal	9.7	9.6	9.5	2,690
Italy	9.3	9.2	9.2	3,239
Slovenia	9.4	9.3	9.2	2,698
Ireland (% of GNI)	10.2	9.4	9.1	3,801
United Kingdom	9.4	9.3	9.1	3,377
Spain	9.4	9.1	9.0	2,966
Bulgaria	7.1	7.9	8.4	1,399
Greece	9.2	9.3	8.1	2,098
Slovakia	8.1	8.0	8.1	2,179
Croatia	7.8	7.8	7.8	1,652
Ireland (% of GDP)	8.3	8.0	7.8	3,801
Czech Republic	7.5	7.5	7.4	2,146
Hungary	7.7	7.5	7.4	1,827
Cyprus	7.4	7.5	7.4	2,062
Luxembourg	7.2	7.1	6.9	6,812
Lithuania	6.7	6.6	6.6	1,718
Estonia	6.4	6.5	6.4	1,668
Poland	6.6	6.4	6.4	1,570
Latvia	5.9	5.7	5.9	940
Romania	5.5	5.6	5.6	1,079

Switzerland	11.6	11.7	11.7	6,468
Serbia	9.9	10.1	10.4	1,312
Norway	9.2	9.4	9.7	6,347
Iceland	8.7	8.8	8.9	3,882
Macedonia	6.8	6.1	6.5	851
Montenegro	7.2	6.4	6.4	888
Turkey	5.2	5.4	5.4	1,036
Source: WHO Global Health Expenditure database
¹ Public and private, see Appendix 1 for details of PPS.

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2015 Table 5.2 (XLS 30KB)

Total expenditure on health in Ireland was 7.8% of GDP in 2014, the ninteenth highest rate in the EU.
However, when expenditure on health in Ireland is calculated as a % of GNI, Ireland had the thirteenth highest rate of expenditure in the EU in 2014.
Four countries spent more than 11% of GDP on health expenditure in 2014, (Sweden, France, Gremany and Austria), while the rate was less than 6% in Latvia and Romania.
Ireland had the ninth highest expenditure on health in International $ (PPP) in 2014 in the EU, with the highest in Luxembourg and the lowest in Latvia.

Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex, 1925-2012

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 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, 2014

5.4 EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex, 2014

years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Cyprus	80.9	84.7	-3.8
Italy	80.7	85.6	-4.9
Spain	80.4	86.2	-5.8
Sweden	80.4	84.2	-3.8
Netherlands	80.0	83.5	-3.5
Malta	79.8	84.2	-4.4
France	79.5	86.0	-6.5
United Kingdom	79.5	83.2	-3.7
Luxembourg	79.4	85.2	-5.8
Ireland	79.3	83.5	-4.2
Austria	79.2	84.0	-4.8
Greece	78.9	84.1	-5.2
Belgium	78.8	83.9	-5.1
Germany	78.7	83.6	-4.9
Denmark	78.7	82.8	-4.1
Finland	78.4	84.1	-5.7
Slovenia	78.2	84.1	-5.9
EU 28	78.1	83.6	-5.5
Portugal	78.0	84.4	-6.4
Czech Republic	75.8	82.0	-6.2
Croatia	74.7	81.0	-6.3
Poland	73.7	81.7	-8.0
Slovakia	73.3	80.5	-7.2
Estonia	72.4	81.9	-9.5
Hungary	72.3	79.4	-7.1
Romania	71.4	78.7	-7.3
Bulgaria	71.1	78.0	-6.9
Lithuania	69.2	80.1	-10.9
Latvia	69.1	79.4	-10.3

Iceland	81.3	84.5	-3.2
Switzerland	81.1	85.4	-4.3
Norway	80.1	84.2	-4.1
Turkey	75.4	80.9	-5.5
Macedonia	73.5	77.5	-4.0
Source: Eurostat

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2015 Table 5.4 (XLS 12KB)

Life expectancy at birth for males in Ireland in 2014, as calculated by Eurostat, was 79.3 years, 1.2 years above the EU average of 78.1 years. Female life expectancy at birth in 2014 was 83.5 years, almost the same as the EU average.
Life expectancy at birth in the EU in 2014 for males was highest in Cyprus at 80.9 years and for females was highest in Spain at 86.2 years.
Life expectancy at birth was higher for females in all EU coutnries, with the highest difference in Lithuania at 10.9 years while the lowest gap was in the Netherlands at 3.5 years.
Life expectancy at birth for females in Ireland was 4.2 years higher than for males.

EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex, 2014

5.5 EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex, 2014

years
Country	Males	Females	Gender differential
Sweden	73.6	73.6	0.0
Malta	72.3	74.3	2.0
Ireland	66.3	67.5	1.2
Cyprus	66.1	66.3	0.2
Spain	65.0	65.0	0.0
Belgium	64.5	63.7	-0.8
Greece	64.1	64.8	0.7
Luxembourg	64.0	63.5	-0.5
Czech Republic	63.4	65.0	1.6
France	63.4	64.2	0.8
United Kingdom	63.4	64.2	0.8
Netherlands	63.3	59.0	-4.3
Italy	62.5	62.3	-0.2
Bulgaria	62.0	66.1	4.1
EU 28	61.4	61.8	0.4
Denmark	60.3	61.4	1.1
Poland	59.8	62.7	2.9
Romania	59.0	59.0	0.0
Hungary	58.9	60.8	1.9
Finland	58.7	57.5	-1.2
Croatia	58.6	60.0	1.4
Portugal	58.3	55.4	-2.9
Slovenia	57.8	59.6	1.8
Lithuania	57.6	61.7	4.1
Austria	57.6	57.8	0.2
Germany	56.4	56.5	0.1
Slovakia	55.5	54.6	-0.9
Estonia	53.2	57.1	3.9
Latvia	51.5	55.3	3.8

Norway	72.2	69.8	-2.4
Iceland	70.8	66.9	-3.9
Switzerland	61.4	57.7	-3.7
Source: Eurostat

Open in Excel: Measuring Ireland's Progress, 2015 Table 5.5 (XLS 12KB)

Healthy life years at birth in Ireland for males was 66.3 years in 2014, the third highest rate in the EU and nearly 5 years above the EU average.
Female healthy life years at birth in Ireland in 2014 was 67.5 years, 5.7 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 in the EU in 2014 was highest for males in Sweden at 73.6 years and for females in Malta at 74.3 years.
Healthy life years for males in Ireland rose from 62.5 years in 2005 to 66.1 years in 2012, before falling back slightly to 65.8 in 2014, (see graph).
Healthy life years for females in Ireland rose from 64.2 years in 2005 to 68.5 years in 2013, before falling back to 68 years in 2014, (see graph).

	Males	Females
2005	62.5	64.2
2006	62.9	64
2007	63.2	64.9
2008	62.9	65.6
2009	63.5	65.1
2010	63.9	65.2
2011	65.9	66.9
2012	66.1	68.3
2013	65.9	68.5
2014	65.8	68

Measuring Ireland's Progress 2015

Health

Ireland: Current public expenditure on health care, 2005-2014

EU: Total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP, 2012-2014

Ireland: Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by sex, 1925-2012

EU: Life expectancy at birth by sex, 2014

EU: Healthy life years at birth by sex, 2014

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