healthcare spending was of gdp in the latest year for which data is available compared to an average of of gdp across oecd countries in this translates to health spending of usd per person adjusted for ppp in turkey roughly one quarter of the usd ppp spent on average among oecd countries in figure while spending increased across all major categories of healthcare providers hospitals and the retail sale of medical goods pharmaceuticals optical hearing and medical aids and appliances sustained growth rates of and a year respectively between and