Antitrust Radar

OECD CompStats / enforcement industry profile

Health care and social assistance

Follow reported cartel and dominance decisions by industry from 2021 to 2024. Classifications, years, and denominators remain attached; activity counts do not measure the prevalence of harm.

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Cartel decisions
6
rank 17 / 20 · 2024
Dominance decisions
6
rank 7 / 20 · 2024
Published window
2021–2024
8 exact category rows
Source label
Health Care and Social Assistance
metric-specific text preserved from the release
One releaseOECD CompStats 2025
Exact yearsNo interpolation or carry-forward
Two measuresKept separate throughout
No performance scoreActivity counts only

Industry activity workspace

Same-year position, exact category path

Focus on one published year and one ordering measure without merging the cartel and dominance series.

Same-year activity plane

Cartel and dominance decisions, 2024

20 categories / independent axes
Health care and social assistance among 20 OECD industry categories in 2024Horizontal position shows published cartel infringement decisions and vertical position shows published abuse of dominance infringement decisions. The selected industry is highlighted. This is a descriptive activity plane, not a performance or harm score.0062.52512550187.575250100Cartel infringement decisionsDominance infringement decisionsAccommodation and food services: 12 cartel decisions, 0 dominance decisionsAdministrative, support, waste management, and remediation services: 28 cartel decisions, 7 dominance decisionsAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting: 21 cartel decisions, 2 dominance decisionsArts, entertainment, and recreation: 13 cartel decisions, 5 dominance decisionsConstruction: 218 cartel decisions, 2 dominance decisionsEducational services: 5 cartel decisions, 0 dominance decisionsFinance and insurance: 25 cartel decisions, 4 dominance decisionsHealth care and social assistance: 6 cartel decisions, 6 dominance decisionsInformation: 23 cartel decisions, 20 dominance decisionsManagement of companies and enterprises: 8 cartel decisions, 2 dominance decisionsManufacturing: 154 cartel decisions, 10 dominance decisionsMining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction: 21 cartel decisions, 0 dominance decisionsOther services except public administration: 30 cartel decisions, 7 dominance decisionsProfessional, scientific, and technical services: 15 cartel decisions, 4 dominance decisionsPublic administration: 0 cartel decisions, 1 dominance decisionsReal estate rental and leasing: 4 cartel decisions, 3 dominance decisionsRetail trade: 44 cartel decisions, 6 dominance decisionsTransportation and warehousing: 25 cartel decisions, 12 dominance decisionsUtilities: 11 cartel decisions, 85 dominance decisionsWholesale trade: 186 cartel decisions, 4 dominance decisionsHealth care and social assistance
Horizontal: cartel decisionsVertical: dominance decisionsPosition does not encode enforcement quality or harm.

Focus-year ordering

Cartel decisions, 2024

Ties share a rank · alphabetical order within equal values
  1. 01Construction21825.7%
  2. 02Wholesale trade18621.9%
  3. 03Manufacturing15418.1%
  4. 04Retail trade445.18%
  5. 05Other services except public administration303.53%
  6. 06Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services283.30%
  7. 07Finance and insurance252.94%
  8. 07Transportation and warehousing252.94%
  9. 09Information232.71%
  10. 10Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting212.47%
  11. 10Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction212.47%
  12. 12Professional, scientific, and technical services151.77%
  13. 13Arts, entertainment, and recreation131.53%
  14. 14Accommodation and food services121.41%
  15. 15Utilities111.30%
  16. 16Management of companies and enterprises80.94%
  17. 17Health care and social assistance60.71%
  18. 18Educational services50.59%
  19. 19Real estate rental and leasing40.47%
  20. 20Public administration00.00%

Exact category trajectories

2021–2024 published paths

Each panel uses a fixed all-industry metric scale.
Cartel decisions

6

2024 · rank 17 / 20
-7 since 2021
01092182021: 13 decisions20212022: 14 decisions20222023: 8 decisions20232024: 6 decisions2024
First: 13Published share: 0.71%
Dominance decisions

6

2024 · rank 7 / 20
+1 since 2021
042.5852021: 5 decisions20212022: 3 decisions20222023: 7 decisions20232024: 6 decisions2024
First: 5Published share: 3.33%

Exact source ledger

Eight published category observations

YearCartel decisionsCartel rankDominance decisionsDominance rankCartel source labelDominance source label
20211310 / 2059 / 20Health Care and Social AssistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance
20221412 / 20310 / 20Health Care and Social AssistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance
2023816 / 2078 / 20Health Care and Social AssistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance
2024617 / 2067 / 20Health Care and Social AssistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance
Interpretation boundary

Industry counts classify published cartel and abuse-of-dominance infringement decisions. They do not measure market concentration, competitive harm, industry size, enforcement quality, deterrence, legal correctness, consumer welfare, or causal effects.

Source custody

A Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights

Antitrust Radar preserves the OECD source industry label and publishes each metric-year row without interpolation. Categories describe the release classification and are not declared legal antitrust markets.

Publisher
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Source review
2026-07-24
Category rows
8
Universe
20 industries

Canonical category dossiers

Browse all 20 enforcement industry profiles

One source classification · two measures · four exact years
01Accommodation and food servicesAccomodation and food services02Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation servicesAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services03Agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting04Arts, entertainment, and recreationArts, Entertainment and Recreation05ConstructionConstruction06Educational servicesEducational Services07Finance and insuranceFinance and Insurance08Health care and social assistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance09InformationInformation10Management of companies and enterprisesManagement of Companies and Enterprises11ManufacturingManufacturing12Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extractionMining, Quarrying and Oil/Gas Extraction / Mining13Other services except public administrationOther Services (except Public Administration)14Professional, scientific, and technical servicesProfessional, Scientific and Technical Services15Public administrationPublic Administration16Real estate rental and leasingReal Estate Rental and Leasing17Retail tradeRetail Trade18Transportation and warehousingTransportation and Warehousing19UtilitiesUtilities20Wholesale tradeWholesale Trade
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