Spain's Healthcare system overview
Spain hosts around 47 million people and despite the fact that it has been powerfully hit during the 2008 economic crisis, it has managed to improve, year by year, its own healthcare system, becoming one of the most important ones worldwide.
In 2018, Bloomberg's Health-Efficiency Index has recognized Spain as the most efficient healthcare system in Europe and the third most efficient in the world, being surpassed only by Hong Kong and Singapore. Moreover, according to Bloomberg's 2019 Healthiest Country Index, Spain has been ranked as the world’s healthiest country.
Spain's healthcare system consists of both the public sector and the private sector. As Spain guarantees universal coverage for all of its residents, 90% out of the Spanish people rely mainly on the National Health System.
Within EU and EFTA countries, Spain is the 13th largest spender on the healthcare system, which accounts for approximately 9% of the annual GDP, meaning more than 2.000 Euros per person. Even if the recent years’ expenditures on public healthcare have increased, the private healthcare system works alongside the public one.