Table 3 Annual rates of increase in Social Security Expenditure and National Income, fiscal years 1951-97
Unit: %
Fiscal Year	Social Security Expenditure				National Income
Total	Medical care	Pensions	Welfare & Others
1951	24.6	24.5	24.9		�\
1952	39.7	42.9	36.2		17.6
1953	17.5	28.8	4.8		15.1
1954	49.0	15.7	94.3		9.8
1955	1.4	12.1	-7.3		5.8
1956	2.4	5.2	-0.3		13.2
1957	9.3	10.2	8.3		12.3
1958	16.6	-5.6	39.8		5.8
1959	13.7	20.2	9.2		17.7
1960	13.4	16.6	10.9		22.2
1961	20.6	30.9	12.2		19.2
1962	16.7	22.1	11.6		11.3
1963	21.6	25.2	17.9		17.9
1964	20.2	24.5	15.3		14.0
1965	19.0	24.7	14.8	9.7	11.5
1966	16.4	17.8	19.7	9.2	18.0
1967	15.9	16.9	17.8	11.0	18.7
1968	15.9	16.7	18.0	11.4	16.4
1969	14.6	15.6	18.7	5.8	19.2
1970	22.6	22.3	23.4	22.4	17.1
1971	14.2	8.4	19.2	27.4	8.0
1972	23.8	24.9	21.4	23.9	18.2
1973	25.6	21.9	35.5	23.4	23.0
1974	44.2	37.8	59.8	40.8	17.4
1975	30.4	21.0	45.0	33.5	10.2
1976	23.3	19.2	37.6	8.8	13.2
1977	16.3	12.0	23.3	13.0	10.9
1978	17.1	16.9	19.0	13.0	10.3
1979	11.2	9.6	14.6	6.8	6.1
1980	12.7	9.8	16.4	11.2	9.5
1981	11.3	7.4	15.2	11.5	5.1
1982	9.2	7.7	10.8	8.6	4.6
1983	6.2	5.5	8.0	2.7	5.2
1984	5.2	3.6	7.2	3.5	5.5
1985	6.1	5.3	9.3	-2.5	6.8
1986	8.2	6.1	11.1	3.9	4.2
1987	5.6	5.6	6.5	1.4	4.7
1988	4.2	4.2	5.3	-0.1	6.2
1989	5.7	5.1	7.1	1.6	6.9
1990	5.2	4.9	6.7	-0.4	7.3
1991	6.2	6.1	6.5	4.5	5.0
1992	7.4	7.4	7.0	9.4	1.7
1993	5.5	4.1	6.0	8.5	0.9
1994	6.5	4.9	6.8	10.7	0.4
1995	7.0	5.2	8.0	8.8	1.9
1996	4.4	4.7	4.3	3.4	2.7
1997	2.8	0.5	4.1	4.0	-0.2