BBC NEWS | Health | Healthcare around the world
US, UK, France and Singapore are compared in this news item.
Here are the Canadian numbers compared to the US
Expenditure on health % GDP (Wikipedia - 2005): US: 15.2% , Canada: 9.8%
Expenditure on health per capita (Wikipedia - 2005): US: US$6,347 per capita, Canada: US$3,463 per capita
Expenditure from the private sector (Wikipedia - 2005): US: 55% , Canada: 30%
Live Expectancy (Wikipedia - CIA World Factbook 2009 estimates): US: 78.11 (ranked 50th on this list) , Canada: 81.23 (ranked 8th on this list)
Infant Mortality Rate (deaths per thousand) (from Wikipedia - CIA World Factbook 2009 estimates): US: 6.3, Canada: 4.8
Population without healthcare: US: 15.3%, Canada: 0%
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