Healthcare expenditure on long-term care in Belgium in 2021

In 2021, approximately 11.8 billion euros were spent on long-term healthcare in Belgium, over half of it was spent towards inpatient long-term care. A further 4.9 billion euros was spent on home-based long term care. This statistic displays the total healthcare expenditure on various modes of long-term care in Belgium in 2021 (in million euros).

Distribution of total healthcare expenditure on long-term care in Belgium in 2021, by care function (in million euros)

Characteristic	Total expenditure in million euros
Day long-term care	121.54
Outpatient long-term care	236.37
Home-based long-term care	4,999.33
Inpatient long-term care	6,540.36

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Release date

May 2023

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Belgium

Survey time period

2021

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Long-term care (health) refers to a variety of medical and personal care services that are provided with the main purpose of alleviating pain and suffering and reducing or managing the deterioration in health status in patients with a degree of long-term dependency.

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