Is economic growth enough to propel rehabilitation expenditures? An empirical analysis of country panel data and policy implications

Table 1 Average per capita expenditure on rehabilitation, by country income classification

Country income classifications	Average GDP per capita	Per capita rehabilitation expenditure¹ Mean (St. dev.) Min-max	N
Low-income	$6,089.28	6.63 (18.45) 0.00005–66.86	13
Lower-middle income	$6,974.96	1.01 (1.88) 0.0001-7.29	23
Upper-middle income	$7,365.95	5.51 (5.56) 0.004–17.51	19
High	$35,146.96	115.64 (154.32) 0.24–492.90	33

Notes:
Per capita expenditure has been averaged across the years 2016 to 2018, which were the years available for rehabilitation spending. N is the number of countries in each income category. We use three years of data for each country to compute mean and stdev

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