{
  "study": {
    "slug": "unmet-medical-needs-in-the-eu",
    "title": "One Greek in Nine Went Without Medical Care They Needed",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/unmet-medical-needs-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Self-reported unmet medical need, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "% of population aged 16 and over",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "The three reasons counted here are cost, distance and waiting time. Waiting lists account for 7.3 of Finland's 7.8 points; cost accounts for 8.8 of Greece's 11.5.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Self-reported unmet need for medical examination and care",
    "code": "sdg_03_60",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "age": "Y_GE16",
      "sex": "T",
      "reason": "TXP_TFAR_WLIST",
      "unit": "PC",
      "quant_inc": "TOTAL",
      "time": "2025"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-21",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/sdg_03_60",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_03_60/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
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      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 11.5,
      "gap_to_reference": 9.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Finland",
      "value": 7.8,
      "gap_to_reference": 5.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Estonia",
      "value": 7.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 5.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 2.4,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Czechia",
      "value": 0.3,
      "gap_to_reference": -2.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Cyprus",
      "value": 0.1,
      "gap_to_reference": -2.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Malta",
      "value": 0.1,
      "gap_to_reference": -2.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}