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Graph of the Week: How Demographics Drive Public Health Spending Trends

Over the past 10 years, provincial and territorial healthcare spending has increased across all age groups. Drilling deeper, in 2022, people over 75 years of age accounted for 29 percent of public health spending – a figure that hasn’t changed since 2012 despite a higher share of the population and increases in per capita spending. The stable proportion of spending on seniors suggests other factors, beyond demographic aging, are contributing to the overall increase in dollars spent on public health. 

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