Historical Healthcare Expenditure Growth, Nominal and Real, 1996-2023

European data from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations tracks the historical growth of healthcare expenditure from 1996 to 2023. The dataset includes both nominal growth, which includes wage and price developments, and real growth, which is adjusted for GDP price developments. These figures have not been corrected for transfers between sectors.

Use Cases

• Modeling the long-term fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems based on historical expenditure growth.
• Analyzing the divergence between nominal and real healthcare spending growth mentioned in the description.
• Benchmarking national healthcare expenditure trends against economic indicators like GDP price developments.
• Forecasting future healthcare costs using a 28-year historical time series.

Strengths

• Covers a 28-year time series from 1996 to 2023.
• Provides two distinct growth measures: nominal and real.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.
• Sourced from an official government ministry.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national accounts or public finance statistics.

Time Range

1996 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely European, inferred from the 'eu_open_data' platform and the Dutch ministry source.