Burundi Health Expenditure Profile
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Burundi Health expenditure profile HEALTH SPENDING IN BRIEF WHO PAYS FOR HEALTH? Health spending (% of GDP) 7.7 17.2% 23.5% Health expenditure per capita (US$) 23 Public Out-of-pocket Public spending on health per capita (US$) 5 Voluntary prepayment External 33.8% 24.6% Other GDP per capita (US$) 298 Life expectancy, both sexes (years) 57 0.9% RICHER COUNTRIES SPEND MORE ON HEALTH… …BUT NOT NECESSARILY AS A SHARE OF GDP 10,000 25 20 1,000 15 10 100 Health spending % of GDP 5 Health spending per capita (US$, log scale) 10 0 100 1,000 10,000 100,000 100 1,000 10,000 100,000 GDP per capita (US$, log scale) GDP per capita (US$, log scale) MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON HEALTH IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER OUT-OF-POCKET SPENDING DOES GOVERNMENT SPEND ENOUGH ON HEALTH? 100 30 15 80 20 10 60 % US$ 40 10 5 20 Out-of-pocket spending % of health 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 Public spending on health % of GDP Health spending per capita (US$, bars) Government health spending % of total government spending (line) Burundi PRIORITY OF HEALTH IN BUDGET ALLOCATION IS A POLITICAL CHOICE 20 15 10 5 Government health spending % of total government spending 0 Togo Haiti Mali Benin C.A.R. Nepal Niger Chad Gambia Liberia Guinea Uganda Ethiopia Senegal Burundi Rwanda Malawi DR Congo Zimbabwe Afghanistan UR Tanzania Burkina Faso Madagascar Guinea-Bissau IS RELIANCE ON OUT-OF-POCKET SPENDING DECREASING OVER TIME? 100 80 60 40 20 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Public External Other Voluntary prepayment Out-of-pocket WHEN PUBLIC SOURCES SPEND MORE ON HEALTH, DO HOUSEHOLDS SPEND LESS? 400 4 300 3 200 2 100 1 % of GDP (lines) GDP per capita (US$, bars) 0 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 GDP per capita (US$, bars) Public spending on health (% of GDP) Out-of-pocket spending (% of GDP) DOES INCREASING AID CROWD OUT PUBLIC SPENDING FROM DOMESTIC SOURCES? EXTERNAL PUBLIC 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Per capita (US$) Per capita (US$) Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Data are for 2016 unless otherwise specified..