Health expenditure: how much is spent on health and care worker remuneration? An analysis of 33 low- and middle-income African countries

Table 4 Average expenditure on the health workforce (HCW) remuneration, per capita and as a share of country health expenditure, by income group

Income group	Per capita expenditure on HCW remuneration (US$)	Expenditure on HCW remuneration as a share of country health expenditure (%)
Low-income	9	25
Middle-income	65	33
Total	38	29

The income groups are as per the World Bank 2019 classification of income groups; lower-middle–income and upper-middle–income groups are merged into a single middle-income group

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