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Health Care Industry Statistics

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U.S. Health Care Industry Overview

	Amount	Units	Year	Source
National Health Care Expenditures	1,921	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
In 2010	2,751	Billion Dollars	2010*	CMS
National Health Care Expenditures per Capita	6,442	Dollars	2005	PRE
National Health Care Expenditures by Type
Hospitals	585.8	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
Physician and Clinical Services	412.0	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
Dental	82.3	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
Nursing Home and Home Health	160.2	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
Prescription drugs	233.6	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
Other	447.1	Billion Dollars	2005	CMS
U.S. Population Less Than 65 Years of Age	254.9	Million	2005	CMS
In 2010	266.8	Million	2010*	CMS
U.S. Population Age 65 Years and Older	37.0	Million	2005	CMS
In 2010	39.4	Million	2010*	CMS

Number of Medicare Beneficiaries, 2005	42.3	Million	2005	CMS
Number of Medicare Beneficiaries, 2010	46.3	Million	2010*	CMS
Number of Medicare Beneficiaries, 2030	78.3	Million	2030*	CMS

U.S. Fertility Rate	2.08	Children Born/Woman	2005*	WFB
U.S. Birth Rate	14.14	Births /1,000 Pop.	2005*	WFB
U.S. Infant Mortality Rate	6.5	Deaths/1,000 Live Births	2005*	WFB
U.S. Life Expectancy at birth	77.71	Years	2005*	WFB
U.S. Death Rate	8.25	Deaths/1,000 Pop.	2005*	WFB

U.S. HIV/AIDS Adult Rate of Prevalence	0.6	%	2003*	WFB
Number of People Living with HIV/AIDS in U.S.	950,000		2003*	WFB
U.S. HIV/AIDS Deaths	14,000		2003*	WFB

Number of All U.S. Registered¹ Hospitals	5,764		2004	AHA
Staffed Beds in All U.S. Registered¹ Hospitals	965,256		2004	AHA
Admissions in All U.S. Registered¹ Hospitals	36,610,535		2004	AHA

Number of People Without Healthcare for the Entire Year	45,828	Thousand	2004	USCB
Percent of Population	15.2	%	2004	USCB
*Estimate
¹Registered hospitals are those hospitals that meet AHA's criteria for registration as a hospital facility. Registered hospitals include AHA member hospitals as well as nonmember hospitals. For a complete listing of the criteria used for registration, please see www.aha.org
AHA = American Hospital Association
WFB = CIA World Fact Book 2004
CMS = Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
USCB = U.S. Census Bureau
PRE = Plunkett Research Estimate

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