Health expenditure per capita (current US$), Nigeria

Total health expenditure is the sum of public and private health expenditures as a ratio of total population. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Source: World Health Organization National Health Account database (www.who.int/nha/en) supplemented by country data. Note: The latest updates on these data are accessible in WHOs National Health Accounts (NHA) website (http://www.who.int/nha/en/).

This series runs for 14 years from 1995 to 2009, with 15 valid data points. The maximum value of 73.44 occurs for 2008. The minimum value of 9.65 occurs for 1995. It has a median of 18.01, a time-weighted average of 21.48 and a standard deviation of 22.1.