Table 1 Overview of case-study countries [74, 75]
Indicator | Country | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada | China | India | Iran | Pakistan | UK | USA | |
World Bank income classification | High | Upper middle | Lower middle | Upper middle | Lower middle | High | High |
Population size (2019) | 38 million | 1.4 billion | 1.3 billion | 83 million | 217 million | 67 million | 328 million |
General government expenditure on health as a percentage of total government expenditure (2018) | 20% | 9% | 3% | 22% | 5% | 19% | 23% |
Physicians per 1000 population (2018/19) | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
Regulation of medical education and licencing led by national authorities or sub-national authorities? | Sub-national | Sub-national | Sub-national | National | Licencing by national body; medical education by sub-national | National | Sub-national |