Health financing peer comparison

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# Health financing peer comparison

For one country and five to eight peers (same region or income group). The budget case rests on a few comparable ratios.

## 1. Pick peers

1. Read the country's income group and region with @[World Bank · Country](alexandria:data-worldbank-org/indicators/country), then list peers with @[World Bank · Countries](alexandria:data-worldbank-org/indicators/countries) (income_level, region).

## 2. Core financing ratios

2. Find indicator ids with @[World Bank · Indicators](alexandria:data-worldbank-org/indicators/indicators) (query out-of-pocket expenditure, domestic general government health expenditure, current health expenditure per capita) and pull them with @[World Bank · Data](alexandria:data-worldbank-org/indicators/data) for all countries, last ten years.
3. Add the UHC service coverage index with @[WHO GHO · Indicators](alexandria:who-int/indicators/indicators) and @[WHO GHO · Data](alexandria:who-int/indicators/data).

## 3. European detail

4. For EU peers, find health expenditure by financing scheme with @[Eurostat · Search datasets](alexandria:ec-europa-eu/indicators/search_datasets) (query health care expenditure by financing scheme), check dimensions with @[Eurostat · Get dataset](alexandria:ec-europa-eu/indicators/get_dataset) and pull with @[Eurostat · Query data](alexandria:ec-europa-eu/indicators/query_data).

## 4. Fiscal room

5. Pull real GDP growth and government revenue forecasts with @[IMF · Weo](alexandria:data-imf-org/datasets/weo) (country_codes, latest edition). Growth sets how fast spending can rise without new taxes.

## Write the comparison

- **Table:** country, OOP share, government health spend share, per capita spend, UHC index, forecast growth, latest year each.
- **Position:** where the country sits versus peer median on each ratio.
- **Options:** two or three policy levers peers used, cited only where sources say so.
- **Sources:** indicator codes and years, Eurostat dataset codes, WEO edition. Say what could not be found.

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