Cost of food in Denmark decreased 0 percent in January of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Denmark averaged 1.77 percent from 2000 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 10.50 percent in August of 2008 and a record low of -3 percent in December of 2009. This page provides - Denmark Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in Algeria decreased 0.50 percent in February of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Algeria averaged 4.10 percent from 2010 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 15.87 percent in April of 2012 and a record low of -3.50 percent in June of 2019. This page provides the latest reported value for - Algeria Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Cost of food in Burundi increased 8.60 percent in January of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Burundi averaged 5.47 percent from 2011 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 34.10 percent in February of 2017 and a record low of -19.90 percent in October of 2018. This page provides - Burundi Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in India increased 8.76 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in India averaged 5.92 percent from 2012 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 14.72 percent in November of 2013 and a record low of -2.65 percent in December of 2018. The Consumer Food Price Index accounts for 39.06 percent of the total consumer price index. This page provides - India Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in Portugal increased 1.22 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Portugal averaged 6.88 percent from 1978 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 38.68 percent in December of 1983 and a record low of -6.33 percent in August of 2009. This page provides - Portugal Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in Serbia increased 1.50 percent in February of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Serbia averaged 5.77 percent from 2007 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 32.20 percent in June of 2008 and a record low of -4.38 percent in June of 2014. This page provides - Serbia Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in Kyrgyzstan increased 10.80 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Kyrgyzstan averaged 6.79 percent from 2003 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 48.16 percent in June of 2008 and a record low of -10.31 percent in June of 2012. This page provides the latest reported value for - Kyrgyzstan Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Cost of food in Kosovo increased 1.80 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Kosovo averaged 3.14 percent from 2003 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 26.70 percent in May of 2008 and a record low of -7.70 percent in May of 2009. This page provides the latest reported value for - Kosovo Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Cost of food in Belarus increased 3.60 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Belarus averaged 9.54 percent from 2014 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 22.90 percent in September of 2014 and a record low of 2.30 percent in June of 2018. This page provides the latest reported value for - Belarus Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Cost of food in the United States increased 1.90 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in the United States averaged 3.39 percent from 1914 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 36.70 percent in May of 1917 and a record low of -34.30 percent in June of 1921. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Cost of food in China increased 18.90 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in China averaged 6.01 percent from 1993 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 40.20 percent in October of 1994 and a record low of -5.50 percent in April of 1999. This page provides - China Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Cost of food in Rwanda increased 24.10 percent in March of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Rwanda averaged 5.93 percent from 2010 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 26.60 percent in February of 2020 and a record low of -14.20 percent in October of 2018. This page provides - Rwanda Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
The workshop "Impact of Inequality on the Future Elderly – Policy Tools and Actions" will take place at the OECD Headquarters in Paris on April 5-6, 2018. Access the agenda, background documents, and register to attend.
This document revises the OECD's statistical definition of biotechnology, which had last been reviewed in 2008, and proposes the adoption of a statistical definition of nanotechnology in the same format.
This new brochure presents the OECD Work on Health for 2017-2018, including all recent and forthcoming major publications and databases.
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing health and economic threat requiring multipronged responses. The OECD provides a forum for discussion and provide countries with the evidence to implement effective and cost-effective policies to tackle AMR, promote effective use of antimicrobials and incentivise research and development in the antibiotic sector.
Read about the release of Health at a Glance 2017, of the 28 EU Country Health Profiles, and of other major reports such as Preventing Ageing Unequally and our Costa Rica and Peru OECD Reviews of Health Systems. The Health Division also prepared for the Milan G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting a brochure on "Healthy people, healthy planet". Also access our latest Health Working Papers.
This report identifies, and seeks to address, key challenges for the responsible development of neurotechnology. In particular, it analyses frameworks and mechanisms for integrating social concerns in the early development of technology, and discusses best practices for research funders across the public and private sector.
The Country Health Profiles are an important step in the European Commission’s two-year State of Health in the EU cycle and are the result of joint work between the OECD and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The concise, policy relevant profiles are based on a transparent, consistent methodology, using both quantitative and qualitative data, yet flexibly adapted to the context of each EU Member State.
OECD Health Statistics 2017 is the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. All datasets have been updated on 10 November 2017, including the datasets for Pharmaceutical Market and Health Care Quality Indicators.
Healthier lifestyles, higher incomes and better education have all contributed to boost life expectancy in recent decades. Better health care has also helped, according to a new OECD report.
Statistics on biotechnology firms, biotechnology R&D (including public sector expenditures), biotech applications and patents.
This document, produced to inform the 2017 meeting of the G7 Ministers of Health, provides a broad overview of the main policy issues and some of the policy actions that G7 Health authorities can put in place to improve population health, while at the same time decreasing the human footprint on the environment.
This new series of OECD Reviews of Public Health provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations to strengthen priority areas of countries’ public health systems, highlighting best practice examples that allow learning from shared experiences, and the spreading of innovative approaches.
World Health Summit 2017: OECD presenting on Big Data
Mental disorders represent a considerable disease burden, and have a significant impact on the lives of the OECD population, and account for considerable direct and indirect costs. This report argues that even in those OECD countries with a long history of deinstitutionalisation, there is still a long way to go to make community-based mental health care that achieves good outcomes for people with severe mental illness a reality.
Several countries have been setting up strategic roadmaps to support marine biotechnologies that could drive innovation and help address the global sustainability goals of food, energy, and health. This report identifies and begins to address challenges facing cooperation on marine biotechnology across countries.
There is now strong evidence that microbiomes play an important role in human health, as there are clear linkages to many major non-communicable diseases. This report assesses the key policy challenges for innovation in the microbiome. It argues that if such a promising scientific field is to lead to innovative applications, policies on science and innovation must be improved in five areas.
Universal Health Coverage is about everyone having access to good quality health services without suffering financial hardship. Although most OECD countries offer all their citizens affordable access to a comprehensive package of health services, they face challenges in sustaining and enhancing such universal systems.
Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) are commonly used to convert national currencies to a common unit. The main novel feature in the 2017 report is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be applied to matching health accounts expenditure data so as to derive consistent price and volume comparisons of health and hospital goods and services consumed.
Today, more than one in two adults and nearly one in six children are overweight or obese in the OECD area. The obesity epidemic has spread further in the past five years. This Obesity Update focusses on a selection of new policy strategies, specifically at communication policies aimed to tackle obesity, in particular by improving nutrient information displayed on food labels, or by regulating the marketing of food products.
Read about our groundbreaking report on inequality - In it Together: Why less inequality benefits all - as well as our recent work on tackling harmful alcohol use. You can also find here all our work on employment, migration, health and social policy over the last few months, as well as highlights from this summer's OECD Forum which addressed the theme "Investing in the future: people, planet, prosperity”.
The OECD is launching an online consultation: tell us how we can improve sustainable access to innovative therapies!
Italy is slowly emerging from a deep and lengthy recession, helped by a range of structural reforms – such as the Jobs Act – and accommodative monetary and fiscal policies, according to a new OECD report.
The OECD Health Division is releasing a new series to highlight its work on health policies and data. A new graph will be available each month.
OECD Health Ministers meeting in Paris have underlined their commitment to tackling important challenges facing health systems around the world. E.g. improving the delivery of high-quality care for all; addressing how to pay for effective health technologies; measuring health system performance on the basis of what it delivers to people, as well as making better use of health data; and making health systems more people-centred.
This High-Level Forum will be held at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris on 16 January 2017. Issues include: Harnessing digital technology and data to create proactive, people-centred systems; Overcoming technical, institutional and cultural challenges; Caring for people with complex needs; The importance of measuring what matters to people and to patients, and The role of international and cross-sector collaboration.
The proliferation of high-cost medicines and rising drug prices are increasing pressures on public health spending and calling into question the pharmaceutical industry’s pricing strategies.
Better public health and prevention policies as well as more effective health care could save hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of euros each year in Europe, according to a new joint OECD/European Commission report.
Asia-Pacific countries should strengthen their health systems and sharply increase spending to deliver effective universal coverage in order to meet the changing needs of their fast ageing populations, according to a new OECD report.
The G7 Health Ministers meeting in Kobe on 11-12 September welcomed OECD work on the linkages between Universal Health Coverage and healthy ageing, and recognised OECD work on access to innovative health treatments. The OECD will deliver initial findings following the French-led initiative to identify innovative options to pay for new medicines and high-cost treatments at the 17 January 2016 OECD Health Ministers meeting.
Latvia has successfully consolidated its hospital sector and strengthened primary care since the financial crisis. But persistent barriers to accessing high quality care need to be removed, according to a new OECD report.
The High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, chaired by H.E. François Hollande and H.E. Jacob Zuma, today delivered its final report and recommendations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Responses from the third wave of the OECD Health System Characteristics Survey are available online, providing access to the most recent information on key institutional characteristics of health systems of OECD countries and key partner and accession countries.
On 16-17 January 2017, the OECD will host a meeting for Ministers of Health and a High-Level Policy Forum on person-centred care, at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
At the OECD, we have calculated that about 50% of all the antimicrobials prescribed by healthcare facilities in our member countries do not meet prescription guidelines. In healthcare services such as long-term care facilities and general practices up to 70% and 90% respectively of antibiotics may be prescribed for inappropriate reasons.
Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths a year by 2060 and cost 1% of global GDP – around USD 2.6 trillion annually – as a result of sick days, medical bills and reduced agricultural output, unless action is taken, according to a new OECD report.
In the past 30 years Korea has gone from having a limited medical infrastructure, fragmented financing and limited population coverage, to a health care system characterised by universal coverage, one of the highest life expectancies in the world while still having one of the lowest levels of health expenditure among OECD countries.
Israel has built a universal health system at relatively low-cost. Health spending was 7.5% of GDP in 2013, below the OECD average of 8.9% although the health spending share of GDP has been increasing rapidly, particularly in recent years. Israel has developed a sophisticated programme to monitor quality of primary care.
Norway has an impressive and comprehensive health system, but it is facing several challenges over the coming years. The shift in the need for care from an ageing population will weigh heavily on the Norwegian health care system, demanding for more skilled health care personnel as well as strengthening of community care.