Comparing health and health care data between countries facilitates international comparative reporting, supports policy planning and decision-making, and enables health-related research and analysis.

The interactive data visualisations across these web pages allow you to compare data from 36 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) member countries across a range of health and health care indicators, with a focus on Australia’s international performance.

The visualisation on this page provides a snapshot of Australia’s health and health care performance in comparison with the OECD average and with other OECD countries.

Additional pages allow you to compare a wider range of indicators across OECD countries at a glance, across the following themes:

• life expectancy, mortality and causes of death
• health status and morbidity
• long-term care
• health risk factors
• pharmaceutical market
• remuneration of health professionals
• health insurance
• waiting times for elective surgery