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Public healthcare expenditure in Italy from 2002 to 2023 (in million euros)

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Release date

December 2024

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Region

Italy

Survey time period

2002 to 2023

Supplementary notes

This figure refers to the current spending on healthcare of National Accounting (Spesa sanitaria corrente di Contabilità Nazionale).
Data prior to 2014 from earlier publications by the source.

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Public healthcare expenditure in Italy increased steadily in the past two decades. This figure stood at approximately ** billion euros in 2002, whereas it exceeded *** billion euros as of 2023. Similarly, private expenditure on healthcare has grown steadily recently, reaching nearly **** billion euros in 2022. This brought the annual healthcare expenditure (public and private combined) to *** percent of the country’s GDP in 2023.

Hospitals in Italy

Despite both the increase in government funding for healthcare and the increase in hospital spending, there has been a closure of smaller healthcare facilities and a decrease in the number of hospitals, which, as a consequence, led to a decline in the number of hospital beds. The number of individuals employed in hospitals fluctuated, reaching almost *** thousand individuals in 2020.

Hospitalization rates

The hospitalization rate per one thousand inhabitants in Italy stood at ***** in 2021. Hospitalization rates, however, varied significantly across regions and depended on the type of treatment. Aosta Valley, the Italian region neighboring France and Switzerland, for example, recorded a hospitalization rate of ******. By contrast, the rate registered in the region of Apulia stood at *****