Historical Healthcare Expenditure Growth in Nominal and Real Terms, 1996-2021

Historical growth development of health expenditure from 1996 to 2021, provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The data includes two distinct growth measures: nominal growth, which includes wage and price developments, and real growth, which is adjusted for GDP price developments. These care expenditures have not been corrected for transfers.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between healthcare spending and GDP price developments based on the real growth measure.
• Analyzing the inflationary components of healthcare costs based on the nominal growth measure.
• Benchmarking national healthcare expenditure trends over a 25-year period.
• Forecasting future healthcare budget requirements based on historical growth patterns.

Strengths

• Covers a 25-year time series from 1996 to 2021, providing a long-term perspective.
• Provides two distinct economic measures (nominal and real growth) for analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license, allowing for unrestricted reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is described as not corrected for transfers, which may affect comparability.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national health accounts and economic statistics.

Time Range

1996 to 2021

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Likely the Netherlands, inferred from the publishing organization.