Tendances récentes des dépenses de santé dans les pays de l’OCDE, et réactions aux chocs économiques et épidémiques

Analysis of recent trends in health spending show the two shocks : the economic crisis in 2008 and the recent impact of the COVID 19 in 2020. While OECD economies contracted sharply in 2008 and 2009, the share of health in the economy remained relatively stable. In 2020, with widespread lockdowns and other public health measures severely restricting economic output and consumer spending, many OECD economies went into freefall in 2020. The need to increase health spending, particularly by governments, in response to the pandemic is likely to have led to the fastest growth in OECD health spending in the last 15 years.