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 and bar chart lists member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It shows each country's total spending (public and private) on health per capita in PPP international dollars.

The next table 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

Table 1

Location links below are "Healthcare in LOCATION" links.

OECD countries only. Total health spending per capita in PPP international dollars. Not inflation-adjusted.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Location	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Australia	5,191	5,127	5,692	6,226	6,596
Austria	5,519	5,625	5,864	6,690	7,275
Belgium	5,351	5,424	5,509	6,022	6,600
Canada	5,337	5,223	5,879	6,278	6,319
Chile	2,281	2,297	2,417	2,665	2,699
Colombia	1,192	1,240	1,293	1,532	1,640
Costa Rica	1,530	1,556	1,618	1,671	1,658
Czech Republic	3,129	3,272	3,804	4,303	4,499
Denmark	5,307	5,360	5,697	6,372	6,280
Estonia	2,364	2,453	2,731	3,083	3,091
Finland	4,330	4,384	4,615	5,252	5,676
France	5,097	5,163	5,453	6,106	6,517
Germany	6,290	6,418	6,946	7,518	8,011
Greece	2,315	2,350	2,486	2,736	3,015
Hungary	2,107	2,095	2,422	2,749	2,840
Iceland	4,236	4,318	4,632	5,107	5,314
Ireland	4,877	4,976	5,378	5,861	6,047
Israel	2,749	2,710	2,875	3,258	3,444
Italy	3,496	3,565	3,753	4,043	4,291
Japan	4,554	4,611	4,620	4,899	5,251
Latvia	1,861	2,026	2,228	3,122	3,445
Lithuania	2,397	2,682	2,878	3,336	3,587
Luxembourg	5,292	5,380	5,628	6,274	6,436
Mexico	1,122	1,117	1,227	1,262	1,181
Netherlands	5,482	5,644	6,198	6,785	7,358
New Zealand	3,913	4,250	4,469	4,921	6,061
Norway	6,495	6,476	6,582	7,043	7,898
Poland	2,107	2,232	2,286	2,522	2,973
Portugal	3,134	3,224	3,355	3,830	4,162
Slovakia	2,009	2,115	2,126	2,522	2,691
Slovenia	3,045	3,222	3,474	3,885	4,114
South Korea	3,067	3,291	3,590	4,189	4,570
Spain	3,427	3,528	3,716	4,087	4,462
Sweden	5,419	5,388	5,734	6,228	6,438
Switzerland	6,602	6,708	7,022	7,582	8,049
Turkey	1,205	1,232	1,305	1,560	1,827
United Kingdom	4,188	4,389	4,998	5,467	5,493
United States	10,447	10,853	11,916	12,197	12,555

OECD bar charts, and graphs

Average annual health expenditures per person in US dollars (PPP). For OECD countries, and some other countries.^[2]^[3]^[6]

"Government/compulsory": government health schemes or compulsory insurance (public or private).
"Voluntary/Out of pocket": private voluntary health insurance or direct payments by households.

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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.^[2]^[3]

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Timeline of a few OECD countries:

Health care cost as percent of GDP (total economy of a nation).^[2]^[3]

Graph below is life expectancy versus healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018.^[7] See: list of countries by life expectancy.

World Health Organization

A country list from World Health Organization's Global Health Expenditure Database.^[8]

Table 2

Asterisk (*) indicates "Healthcare in LOCATION" or "Health in LOCATION" links.

Total health spending per capita in PPP international dollars. Not inflation-adjusted.^[8]^[4]^[5]
Location	2018	2019	2020	2021
Afghanistan *	71	74	80	81
Algeria *	258	251	215
Andorra *	3,188	3,062	3,337
Angola *	84	69	51
Antigua and Barbuda	850	802	830
Argentina *	1,122	959	864
Armenia *	439	549	552
Australia *	5,864	5,555	5,901
Austria *	5,337	5,262	5,585	6,491
Azerbaijan *	165	192	191
Bahamas	1,920	1,921	1,851
Bahrain *	1,049	1,024	1,110
Bangladesh *	45	48	51
Barbados *	1,193	1,171	1,200
Belarus *	342	390	408
Belgium *	5,142	4,984	5,009
Belize *	287	304	278
Benin *	30	27	32
Bhutan *	102	115	134
Bolivia *	229	239	241
Bosnia and Herzegovina *	528	544	591
Botswana *	420	409	363
Brazil *	863	850	701
Brunei *	754	675	650
Bulgaria *	690	698	857
Burkina Faso *	39	41	54
Burundi *	20	17	16
Cape Verde *	179	174	176
Cambodia *	94	115	116
Cameroon *	58	56	58
Canada *	5,053	5,084	5,619	6,086
Central African Republic *	49	34	42
Chad *	32	31	35
Chile *	1,457	1,369	1,278	1,479
China *	505	540	583
Colombia *	517	523	477
Comoros *	74	78	81
Congo *	48	59	81
Cook Islands	567	650	531
Costa Rica *	902	915	953
Ivory Coast *	71	74	85
Croatia *	1,025	1,040	1,095
Cuba *	973	1,013	1,186
Cyprus *	2,021	2,044	2,245
Czech Republic *	1,753	1,803	2,120
DR Congo *	18	20	21
Denmark *	6,233	6,059	6,438	7,375
Djibouti *	64	62	63
Dominica *	485	443	427
Dominican Republic *	328	347	354
Ecuador *	497	487	479
Egypt *	120	145	151
El Salvador *	345	364	386
Equatorial Guinea *	271	223	237
Eritrea *	24	25	24
Estonia *	1,553	1,599	1,788	2,036
Eswatini *	291	259	219
Ethiopia *	24	26	29
Fiji *	216	228	186
Finland *	4,522	4,460	4,726
France *	4,669	4,508	4,769
Gabon *	211	208	229
Gambia	23	23	19
Georgia *	332	309	320
Germany *	5,504	5,478	5,930	6,503
Ghana *	74	74	85
Greece *	1,603	1,569	1,675
Grenada *	439	488	491
Guatemala *	266	279	289
Guinea *	35	43	47
Guinea-Bissau *	60	61	61
Guyana *	299	319	378
Haiti *	62	49	44
Honduras *	178	184	213	254
Hungary *	1,080	1,054	1,163
Iceland *	6,234	5,865	5,637	6,636
India *	58	61	57
Indonesia *	112	121	133
Iran *	463	451	573
Iraq *	227	240	202
Ireland *	5,484	5,431	6,092	6,700
Israel *	3,220	3,454	3,867
Italy *	3,003	2,911	3,057	3,351
Jamaica *	334	343	326
Japan *	4,288	4,379	4,388
Jordan *	322	315	299
Kazakhstan *	273	270	342
Kenya *	76	86	83
Kiribati *	192	163	167
Kuwait *	1,661	1,644	1,533
Kyrgyzstan *	67	63	64
Laos *	57	68	68
Latvia *	1,101	1,183	1,313
Lebanon *	745	732	994
Lesotho *	122	121	107
Liberia *	66	52	57
Lithuania *	1,249	1,370	1,522	1,840
Luxembourg *	6,227	6,222	6,757	7,314
Madagascar *	22	19	18
Malawi *	37	30	33
Malaysia *	416	427	419
Maldives *	805	852	826
Mali *	32	33	35
Malta *	2,754	2,944	3,135
Marshall Islands *	737	782	731
Mauritania *	59	60	59
Mauritius *	642	672	560
Mexico *	531	553	539
Micronesia *	422	421	425
Monaco *	3,101	3,055	3,085
Mongolia *	158	183	200
Montenegro *	727	732	866
Morocco *	175	177	187
Mozambique *	41	40	34
Myanmar *	60	61	72
Namibia *	473	432	380
Nauru *	1,176	1,159	1,144
Nepal *	50	53	58
Netherlands *	5,331	5,341	5,846	6,531
New Zealand *	3,958	4,082	4,202
Nicaragua *	168	162	161
Niger *	30	31	35
Nigeria *	66	70	70
Niue	1,325	1,157	1,319
North Macedonia *	387	421	453
Norway *	8,272	8,007	7,704	9,021
Oman *	639	728	845
Pakistan *	41	37	38
Palau	1,790	2,403	2,640
Panama *	1,228	1,318	1,215
Papua New Guinea *	59	60	64
Paraguay *	421	416	406
Peru *	363	367	389
Philippines *	126	142	165	194
Poland *	979	1,014	1,026	1,183
Portugal *	2,216	2,222	2,342	2,720
Qatar *	2,156	2,208	2,188
South Korea *	2,519	2,595	2,642	3,031
Moldova *	276	284	307
Romania *	687	739	810
Russia *	609	654	774
Rwanda *	52	51	57
Saint Kitts and Nevis *	1,103	1,204	1,105
Saint Lucia *	513	514	608
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines *	348	375	402
Samoa *	198	239	202
San Marino *	4,115	3,951	3,938
São Tomé and Príncipe *	115	105	107
Saudi Arabia *	1,291
Senegal *	66	66	77
Serbia *	617	641	672
Seychelles *	792	787	727
Sierra Leone *	43	45	43
Singapore *	2,642	2,826	3,537
Slovakia *	1,300	1,342	1,394
Slovenia *	2,170	2,219	2,417	2,671
Solomon Islands *	92	104	99
South Africa *	569	550	490
South Sudan *	28	24	33
Spain *	2,741	2,713	2,901
Sri Lanka *	159	142	151
Sudan *	36	36	23
Suriname *	450	593	460
Sweden *	6,005	5,653	6,028	6,915
Switzerland *	9,871	9,667	10,310
Tajikistan *	60	62	70
Thailand *	276	294	305
East Timor *	79	79	121
Togo *	53	49	53
Tonga *	219	230	248
Trinidad and Tobago *	1,056	1,072	1,031
Tunisia *	212	190	222
Turkey *	388	397	395
Turkmenistan *	457	489	484
Tuvalu *	801	1,034	1,071
Uganda *	33	33	34
Ukraine *	221	247	270
United Arab Emirates *	1,915	1,947	2,192
United Kingdom *	4,228	4,265	4,927	5,634
Tanzania *	41	40	39
United States *	10,285	10,661	11,702
Uruguay *	1,697	1,677	1,430
Uzbekistan *	82	99	121
Vanuatu *	102	102	114
Venezuela *	165	113	142
Vietnam *	164	174	166
Zambia *	75	67	54
Zimbabwe *	115	55	51

Notes and references

^ "Total health expenditure per person". Our World in Data.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Health expenditure and financing. OECD data. Also includes some non-OECD countries at the end of the list. OECD = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Choose options from dropdown menus. See the "Financing scheme" menu. For the multi-year table pick "All financing schemes". Set "Function" menu to "Current expenditure on health (all functions)". Set "Provider" menu to "All providers". Set "Measure" menu to "Per capita, current prices, current PPPs". Pick years. Pick countries. Then export to Excel, and open in a spreadsheet such as freeware LibreOffice Calc. Clean up table and copy to visual editor in a sandbox. See Help:Table.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d OECD Data. Health resources - Health spending. doi:10.1787/8643de7e-en. 2 charts: For both: From bottom menus: Countries menu > choose OECD. Check box for "latest data available". Perspectives menu > Check box to "compare variables". Then check the boxes for government/compulsory, voluntary, and total. Some charts will also need "out-of-pocket" checked (part of voluntary spending). Click top tab for chart (bar chart). For GDP chart choose "% of GDP" from bottom menu. For per capita chart choose "US dollars/per capita". Click fullscreen button above chart. Click "print screen" key. Click top tab for table, to see data list. Scroll down for multiple lists. Click download > "selected data only" to get the .csv file to create an article table. Uncheck the "compare variables" box first to get just the totals. Concerning per capita data click "more" in the intro paragraph to see that PPP U.S. dollars are used.
^ ^a ^b What is the difference between current and constant data? From: World Bank Data Help Desk.
^ ^a ^b What is an “international dollar”? From: World Bank Data Help Desk.
^ ^a ^b "Health expenditure per capita. Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators". OECD.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Global Health Expenditure Database. Data Explorer. World Health Organization. Set up a table by selecting options in the left sidebar. Then click "view data and build report" to get a table with year columns, and country rows. Print it out, or download in various formats.

[r432-1] "Total health expenditure per person". Our World in Data.

[OECDstats-2] Health expenditure and financing. OECD data. Also includes some non-OECD countries at the end of the list. OECD = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Choose options from dropdown menus. See the "Financing scheme" menu. For the multi-year table pick "All financing schemes". Set "Function" menu to "Current expenditure on health (all functions)". Set "Provider" menu to "All providers". Set "Measure" menu to "Per capita, current prices, current PPPs". Pick years. Pick countries. Then export to Excel, and open in a spreadsheet such as freeware LibreOffice Calc. Clean up table and copy to visual editor in a sandbox. See Help:Table.

[OECD-barcharts-3] OECD Data. Health resources - Health spending. doi:10.1787/8643de7e-en. 2 charts: For both: From bottom menus: Countries menu > choose OECD. Check box for "latest data available". Perspectives menu > Check box to "compare variables". Then check the boxes for government/compulsory, voluntary, and total. Some charts will also need "out-of-pocket" checked (part of voluntary spending). Click top tab for chart (bar chart). For GDP chart choose "% of GDP" from bottom menu. For per capita chart choose "US dollars/per capita". Click fullscreen button above chart. Click "print screen" key. Click top tab for table, to see data list. Scroll down for multiple lists. Click download > "selected data only" to get the .csv file to create an article table. Uncheck the "compare variables" box first to get just the totals. Concerning per capita data click "more" in the intro paragraph to see that PPP U.S. dollars are used.

[constantdata-4] What is the difference between current and constant data? From: World Bank Data Help Desk.

[international$-5] What is an “international dollar”? From: World Bank Data Help Desk.

[OECD-2023-6] "Health expenditure per capita. Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators". OECD.

[life-7] 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.

[WHO-8] Global Health Expenditure Database. Data Explorer. World Health Organization. Set up a table by selecting options in the left sidebar. Then click "view data and build report" to get a table with year columns, and country rows. Print it out, or download in various formats.

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