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Dental spend local currency: Australia, 2023
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Australia spent about AUD 13.15 billion on dental care in 2023, in local currency, according to OECD Health Statistics. Basis: other.
Comparability A Confidence medium
Cite this
OECD (data supplied by AIHW for Australia). (2026). Dental spend local currency: Australia, as of 2023-06-30 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/au/dental-spend-local-currency/2023/
Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/au/dental-spend-local-currency/2023/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Record
- Value
- AUD 13.15 billion
- Exact stored value
- 13,152,275,000 AUD
- Unit conversion
- Stored value = quoted number × 1000000 (million AUD to AUD). Declared by the data desk.
- Unit
- AUD
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- medium
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- other
- Scope
- other
- Comparability
- Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
OECD.ELS.HD:DSD_SHA@DF_SHA(1.1),AUS,A,EXP_HEALTH,XDC,_T,_Z,HC132,HBOUT,_T,_Z,_Z,V,2023,13152.275,,,,,,6,1
Locator: SDMX CSV row AUS / XDC / FINANCING_SCHEME _T / HC132 / PROVIDER _T / PRICE_BASE V / 2023 (UNIT_MULT 6 = millions)
Local definition
Current expenditure on dental outpatient curative care (SHA HC.1.3.2), all financing schemes, Australian dollars, current prices
Source
OECD (data supplied by AIHW for Australia): OECD Health Statistics: System of Health Accounts (DSD_SHA@DF_SHA), function HC.1.3.2 dental outpatient curative care. Registry entry: au-oecd-sha-dental.
Notes
Currency AUD. Total (insured + out-of-pocket + government), not insured-only. Australia reports health accounts by financial year; which FY "2023" denotes is to be confirmed (AIHW source robots-blocked). 2022: A$12,497.531m; 2021: A$11,114.4m.
Metric definition
Total or insured dental spending in local currency; record currency, fiscal year and whether insured-only in notes All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | AUD 13.15 billion | other | Comparability A | OECD Health Statistics: System of Health Accounts (DSD_SHA@DF_SHA), function HC.1.3.2 dental outpatient curative care |
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