Health Expenditure Trends in New Zealand 1990-2001Date of publication: November 2002
This document reports on health and disability expenditure in New Zealand during 2000/01 and provides information on expenditure trends for the period 1990–2001. Expenditure data are provided both inclusive and exclusive of ‘non-health’ items transferred from social agencies to Vote Health.
The main focus of this report is on the expenditure series that excludes ‘non-health’ items. In this area, key statistics for 2000/01 include the following.
- Total nominal health and disability expenditure rose 10.4% during the year to $9,884 million. Publicly funded expenditure was up 8.6% and private spending increased 16.9%. Within the latter, private health insurance expenditure was up 8.8% to $610.1 million, private household spending grew 20.5% to $1,657 million (due to underestimating the prior year data) and expenditure by the not-for-profit sector was $33 million.
- Real (consumer price index adjusted) total expenditure increased 7.0% for the year compared with a rise of 3.6% the previous year. Real publicly funded expenditure grew by 5.2%, and real private expenditure by 13.2% (3.0% in the previous year).
- Real per capita publicly funded expenditure increased by 4.7% (compared with 3.2% the year before) to $1,974.
- Real per capita aggregate expenditure was up 6.5% (compared with 3.4% the year before) to $2,573.
- The estimated share of public funding was 76.7%, down 1.3% on 1999/2000.
- New Zealand’s total health expenditure as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 8.8%, compared with 8.5% in 1999/2000. When the funding for ‘non-health’ items (mostly disability support activities) is included, the proportion increases to 9.2% in 2000/01, compared with 8.9% in 1999/2000.
- New Zealand’s publicly funded health expenditure as a percentage of GDP was 6.8% in 2000/01. When the funding for ‘non-health’ items included in Vote Health is added, the proportion of publicly funded health and disability spending to GDP rises to 7.2%.
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