List of countries by total health expenditure per capita

This article includes 2 lists of countries of the world and their total expenditure on health per capita. Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures. See also: Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country.
The first table uses OECD data and lists member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and a few other countries. It shows each country's total spending (public and private) on health per capita in PPP international dollars.
The next data table (Table 2) lists nearly all countries. It uses data from the World Health Organization (WHO). It also shows each country's total spending (public and private) on health per capita in PPP international dollars.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
[edit]A country list from OECD Data at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[1][2][3]
Table 1
[edit]Location links below are "Healthcare in LOCATION" links. OECD member countries are followed by non-OECD countries. Scroll down table to "Non-OECD countries" header.
| Locations | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,469 | 7,015 | 6,907 | 6,546 | 5,819 | |
| 8,401 | 7,697 | 7,700 | 7,465 | 6,295 | |
| 7,750 | 7,178 | 6,906 | 6,554 | 6,097 | |
| 7,301 | 7,046 | 6,876 | 6,906 | 6,209 | |
| 3,749 | 3,396 | 3,113 | 2,848 | 2,489 | |
| 1,877 | 1,584 | 1,376 | 1,379 | 1,379 | |
| 1,977 | 1,789 | 1,661 | 1,647 | 1,581 | |
| 5,014 | 4,570 | 4,394 | 4,462 | 4,098 | |
| 7,071 | 6,555 | 6,661 | 6,913 | 6,147 | |
| 3,652 | 3,369 | 3,169 | 3,176 | 2,922 | |
| 6,655 | 6,276 | 5,765 | 5,395 | 4,967 | |
| 7,354 | 6,848 | 6,701 | 6,395 | 5,874 | |
| 9,365 | 8,503 | 8,652 | 8,103 | 7,364 | |
| 3,607 | 3,442 | 3,176 | 2,930 | 2,654 | |
| 3,303 | 3,023 | 3,013 | 2,950 | 2,615 | |
| 6,770 | 6,134 | 5,956 | 5,556 | 5,010 | |
| 7,813 | 7,027 | 6,748 | 6,221 | 5,619 | |
| 4,352 | 3,840 | 3,682 | 3,358 | 3,015 | |
| 5,164 | 4,847 | 4,744 | 4,409 | 4,027 | |
| 5,790 | 5,619 | 5,984 | 5,454 | 4,855 | |
| 4,797 | 4,586 | 4,634 | 4,106 | 3,618 | |
| 3,411 | 2,689 | 2,864 | 3,096 | 2,403 | |
| 3,870 | 3,306 | 3,242 | 3,146 | 3,092 | |
| 8,162 | 7,247 | 6,854 | 6,432 | 5,859 | |
| 1,588 | 1,494 | 1,394 | 1,272 | 1,203 | |
| 8,436 | 7,615 | 7,517 | 7,317 | 6,516 | |
| 6,700 | 6,479 | 6,480 | 5,213 | 4,571 | |
| 9,393 | 8,909 | 8,533 | 7,890 | 7,221 | |
| 4,284 | 3,560 | 3,066 | 2,752 | 2,510 | |
| 5,212 | 4,713 | 4,594 | 4,208 | 3,555 | |
| 4,021 | 3,280 | 3,126 | 2,922 | 2,449 | |
| 5,527 | 4,556 | 4,353 | 3,894 | 3,756 | |
| 5,346 | 4,927 | 4,744 | 4,405 | 3,996 | |
| 7,871 | 7,364 | 6,977 | 6,617 | 6,069 | |
| 9,963 | 9,301 | 9,089 | 8,392 | 7,621 | |
| 2,309 | 2,103 | 1,654 | 1,588 | 1,382 | |
| 6,747 | 6,412 | 6,188 | 5,785 | 5,381 | |
| 14,885 | 13,818 | 12,898 | 12,375 | 11,926 | |
| Non-OECD countries | |||||
| 3,234 | 3,214 | 3,010 | 2,478 | ||
| 1,898 | 1,778 | 1,578 | |||
| 2,860 | 2,602 | 2,446 | 2,392 | ||
| 1,223 | 1,110 | 1,030 | |||
| 2,815 | 2,615 | 2,531 | 2,315 | ||
| 4,156 | 4,108 | 3,852 | 3,490 | ||
| 334 | 297 | 250 | |||
| 417 | 386 | 476 | 402 | ||
| 5,026 | 4,831 | 4,653 | |||
| 1,017 | 1,020 | 817 | |||
| 2,343 | 2,123 | 2,108 | 2,218 | ||
| 1,345 | 1,236 | 1,193 | |||
| 1,102 | 1,230 | 577 | 404 | ||
| 1,512 | 1,161 | ||||
OECD bar charts, and graphs
[edit]Average annual health expenditures per person in US dollars (PPP). For OECD countries, and some other countries.[4][1]
- "Government/compulsory": government health schemes or compulsory insurance (public or private).
- "Voluntary/Out of pocket": private voluntary health insurance or direct payments by households.

The chart below is older (2020 data) and breaks down the voluntary spending further by separating out-of-pocket payments. In this chart the items are stacked by color. There are a few other countries than just OECD countries.[1]

Timeline of a few OECD countries:

| Life expectancy vs health expenditure |

Graph below is life expectancy versus healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018.[6] See: list of countries by life expectancy.

World Health Organization
[edit]A country list from World Health Organization's Global Health Expenditure Database. Processed by Our World in Data.[7]
Table 2
[edit]Location links below are "Healthcare in LOCATION" links.
| Location | PPP $ | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 383 | 2022 | |
| 1,186 | 2022 | |
| 547 | 2022 | |
| 5,641 | 2023 | |
| 217 | 2022 | |
| 1,436 | 2022 | |
| 2,664 | 2022 | |
| 1,824 | 2022 | |
| 7,072 | 2022 | |
| 7,891 | 2023 | |
| 699 | 2022 | |
| 3,047 | 2022 | |
| 2,257 | 2022 | |
| 179 | 2022 | |
| 1,172 | 2022 | |
| 1,511 | 2022 | |
| 7,388 | 2022 | |
| 477 | 2022 | |
| 106 | 2022 | |
| 600 | 2022 | |
| 831 | 2022 | |
| 1,827 | 2022 | |
| 1,132 | 2022 | |
| 1,696 | 2022 | |
| 1,242 | 2022 | |
| 2,570 | 2022 | |
| 174 | 2022 | |
| 68 | 2022 | |
| 333 | 2022 | |
| 202 | 2022 | |
| 6,813 | 2023 | |
| 664 | 2022 | |
| 109 | 2022 | |
| 94 | 2022 | |
| 3,287 | 2023 | |
| 1,136 | 2022 | |
| 1,674 | 2023 | |
| 317 | 2022 | |
| 83 | 2022 | |
| 1,917 | 2022 | |
| 227 | 2022 | |
| 3,055 | 2022 | |
| 2,884 | 2022 | |
| 4,813 | 2022 | |
| 4,476 | 2023 | |
| 50 | 2022 | |
| 7,012 | 2023 | |
| 154 | 2022 | |
| 931 | 2022 | |
| 1,044 | 2022 | |
| 341 | 2022 | |
| 989 | 2022 | |
| 700 | 2022 | |
| 1,085 | 2022 | |
| 466 | 2022 | |
| 87 | 2022 | |
| 3,409 | 2022 | |
| 762 | 2022 | |
| 79 | 2022 | |
| 590 | 2023 | |
| 6,048 | 2022 | |
| 6,853 | 2022 | |
| 461 | 2022 | |
| 89 | 2022 | |
| 1,456 | 2022 | |
| 7,758 | 2023 | |
| 242 | 2022 | |
| 3,298 | 2022 | |
| 919 | 2022 | |
| 783 | 2022 | |
| 116 | 2022 | |
| 187 | 2022 | |
| 1,229 | 2022 | |
| 107 | 2022 | |
| 557 | 2022 | |
| 2,770 | 2023 | |
| 6,475 | 2023 | |
| 273 | 2022 | |
| 390 | 2022 | |
| 966 | 2022 | |
| 466 | 2022 | |
| 8,298 | 2022 | |
| 4,009 | 2022 | |
| 4,935 | 2023 | |
| 925 | 2022 | |
| 5,387 | 2022 | |
| 767 | 2022 | |
| 1,129 | 2022 | |
| 248 | 2022 | |
| 303 | 2022 | |
| 2,415 | 2022 | |
| 311 | 2022 | |
| 189 | 2022 | |
| 3,139 | 2022 | |
| 653 | 2022 | |
| 365 | 2022 | |
| 224 | 2022 | |
| 969 | 2022 | |
| 3,523 | 2023 | |
| 8,175 | 2023 | |
| 56 | 2022 | |
| 105 | 2022 | |
| 1,281 | 2022 | |
| 2,454 | 2022 | |
| 90 | 2022 | |
| 5,760 | 2022 | |
| 747 | 2022 | |
| 274 | 2022 | |
| 1,554 | 2022 | |
| 1,353 | 2022 | |
| 378 | 2022 | |
| 1,095 | 2022 | |
| 8,765 | 2022 | |
| 1,267 | 2022 | |
| 3,107 | 2022 | |
| 553 | 2022 | |
| 131 | 2022 | |
| 242 | 2022 | |
| 930 | 2022 | |
| 2,576 | 2022 | |
| 323 | 2022 | |
| 7,576 | 2022 | |
| 5,214 | 2022 | |
| 636 | 2022 | |
| 68 | 2022 | |
| 245 | 2022 | |
| 1,815 | 2022 | |
| 9,927 | 2022 | |
| 1,178 | 2022 | |
| 179 | 2022 | |
| 1,979 | 2022 | |
| 625 | 2022 | |
| 3,332 | 2022 | |
| 115 | 2022 | |
| 1,247 | 2022 | |
| 942 | 2022 | |
| 569 | 2023 | |
| 3,402 | 2023 | |
| 4,452 | 2023 | |
| 2,318 | 2022 | |
| 2,472 | 2022 | |
| 2,446 | 2022 | |
| 222 | 2022 | |
| 1,946 | 2022 | |
| 883 | 2022 | |
| 820 | 2022 | |
| 396 | 2022 | |
| 5,880 | 2022 | |
| 304 | 2022 | |
| 3,102 | 2022 | |
| 168 | 2022 | |
| 2,373 | 2022 | |
| 1,561 | 2022 | |
| 160 | 2022 | |
| 6,658 | 2022 | |
| 3,169 | 2022 | |
| 5,035 | 2023 | |
| 116 | 2022 | |
| 44 | 2022 | |
| 1,341 | 2022 | |
| 5,350 | 2023 | |
| 39 | 2022 | |
| 4,776 | 2022 | |
| 611 | 2022 | |
| 122 | 2022 | |
| 1,043 | 2022 | |
| 7,659 | 2023 | |
| 10,668 | 2022 | |
| 454 | 2022 | |
| 364 | 2022 | |
| 93 | 2022 | |
| 1,107 | 2022 | |
| 149 | 2022 | |
| 520 | 2021 | |
| 1,811 | 2022 | |
| 885 | 2022 | |
| 1,387 | 2022 | |
| 873 | 2022 | |
| 1,127 | 2022 | |
| 127 | 2022 | |
| 1,095 | 2021 | |
| 3,814 | 2022 | |
| 6,372 | 2023 | |
| 12,434 | 2022 | |
| 2,568 | 2022 | |
| 716 | 2022 | |
| 138 | 2022 | |
| 131 | 2022 | |
| 611 | 2022 | |
| 109 | 2022 | |
| 208 | 2022 | |
| 96 | 2022 |
See also
[edit]- Health system
- Health care systems by country
- List of countries by hospital beds
- List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rate
- List of countries by maternal mortality ratio
- List of countries by total health expenditure by type of financing
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ a b c d "OECD Data Explorer". data-explorer.oecd.org. OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Click on the "Health expenditure and financing" link. Make selections. Apply (may need to go full-screen to see button at bottom). Choose table output. Download table in Excel. This link has the selections too, and may be a better place to start. If problems, check platform and data status.
- ^ What is the difference between current and constant price series? From: World Bank Data Help Desk.
- ^ What is an “international dollar”? From: World Bank Data Help Desk. "This term is often used in conjunction with Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) data."
- ^ "Full Report: Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators". OECD. Figure 7.4. Health expenditure per capita, 2022 (or nearest year). It is from page 157 of the full report PDF. The StatLink is for the Figure 7.4 bar chart, and the data table for it.
- ^ "Life expectancy at birth". Our World in Data.
- ^ Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. By Max Roser at Our World in Data. Click the sources tab under the chart for info on the countries, healthcare expenditures, and data sources. See the later version of the chart here.
- ^ "Total health expenditure per person". Our World in Data. Map: Map tab > download. Latest-year-only table: Map tab > Pick latest year in slider > Download > Download displayed data. No other selections. Data source: World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure Database, via World Bank – processed by Our World in Data.