Indians 6th biggest pvt spenders on health among low-middle income nations

In terms of spending on public health, India ranked 147 among 184 countries, a notch below Pakistan

Indians were the sixth biggest out-of-pocket health spenders in the low-middle income group of 50 nations in 2014, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of two recent studies by The Lancet, a British medical journal. Indians spent 27.4 percentage points more than median-country citizens did (38.2%), the analysis showed.

The Lancet had conducted two studies–published on April 19, 2017–across 184 nations on public and private spending on health. The first showed that