South Africa has a publicly funded healthcare system which offers basic primary healthcare free of charge. This sector lacks resources and is stretched to deliver health services to 80% of the population. The private sector delivers services to the 20% of the population that can afford it, where more money is spent on drugs.
Life Expectancy |
80.5 |
Infant Mortality Rate |
5.0 |
Physicians per 1000 people |
2.47 |
Nurses over 1000 people |
9.71 |
Expenditure on health per capita USD |
2,519 |
Healthcare cost as a % of GDP |
9.5 |
% of government revenue spent on health |
11 |
% of health costs paid by the government |
40 |
[1] - CIA World factbook
[2] - World Health Organisation
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