According to the data released, Luxembourg, Norway and Qatar are the three countries in the world where a day of hospitalisation is most expensive. In Luxembourg, each day in hospital costs €1,648, in Norway €1,221 and in Qatar €1,189.

In the USA and Canada, the average bill for, for example, for an operation to remove the appendix exceeds €40,000.

Portugal ranks 35th in the table of the most expensive countries in the world in terms of hospitalisation, with each day of hospitalisation costing an average of €261.