Skip to main content

Table 3 Total public and public health expenditure, 2002–2005 (as % of GDP) (See Additional File 2)

From: Paris on the Mekong: using the aid effectiveness agenda to support human resources for health in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

 

2002

2003

2004

2005

Total expenditure (including debt)

19.6

19.5

15.7

19.9

Health expenditure as % of total public

0.98

1.13

0.68

1.14

• Domestic expenditure

0.49

0.34

0.28

0.31

• Foreign financed

0.49

0.79

0.4

0.83

Structure of expenditure

    

• Capital expenditure, in total

0.65

0.9

0.43

0.87

• Domestically financed

0.16

0.1

0.04

0.04

• Foreign financed

0.49

0.79

0.4

0.83

• Recurrent expenditure, total

0.33

0.23

0.25

0.27

• Salaries/Wages

0.21

0.16

0.19

0.17

• Operations and Maintenance

0.11

0.07

0.06

0.1