Government healthcare spending in times of economic sanctions

Figures & data

Figure 1. Government healthcare spending as % of total government spending and as % of GDP.

Table 1. Wilcoxon – Mann – Whitney test results for changes in government healthcare spending.

Countries	P-value for government healthcare spending as % of total government spending	P-value for government healthcare spending as % of GDP
Iraq (2011–2016 vs 2004–2009)	0.03**	0.01**
Libya (2005–2008 vs 2000–2003)	0.02**	0.08*
Venezuela (2007–2012 vs 2000–2005)	0.01**	0.10*
Iran (2016–2017 vs 2013–2014)	1.00	0.12
Iran (2019–2020 vs 2016–2017)	0.12	0.12

***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1, 5, and 10% levels, respectively.