Total health spending per person globally in 2019 averaged to some 1,129 U.S. dollars (1,482 PPP dollars), and is estimated to increase to 1,515 U.S. dollars (2.050 PPP dollars) by 2050. This statistic shows the global health spending per capita in 2019 and projection for 2050 (in U.S. dollars).

World healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $1,235, a 0.9% decline from 2021.

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<li>World healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$1,246</strong>, a <strong>7.57% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>World healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$1,158</strong>, a <strong>7.05% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>World healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$1,082</strong>, a <strong>1.61% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

The public and private per capita health expenditure differs significantly by country. As of 2023, the United States had by far the highest public per capita spending worldwide. Moreover, the U.S. had the second-highest private expenditure on health globally just after Switzerland. Health expenditures globally Health expenditures include the consumption of health goods, services and public health programs as well as insurance and government spending. Globally, health expenditures are on the rise. Among all countries the average per capita health expenditure is projected to see an increase of over 30 percent from the 2019 totals by the year 2050. Despite the growing expenditures, there are still countries with relatively low health expenditures. The countries with the lowest governmental health expenditure include South Sudan, Eritrea and Bangladesh. Health expenditures spotlight: the U.S. In 2021 the U.S. national health expenditure was at an all-time high. However, the projections indicate that total health expenditures will increase even more. The per capita health expenditures for the U.S. looked equally grim, with 2021 projected to be the most expensive year for health care on record. Despite having seen a significant increase in the total cost of health care in the U.S., trends indicate that the annual percentage change in health expenditures is decreasing over time.

U.S. healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $12,434, a 3.63% increase from 2021.

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<li>U.S. healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$11,999</strong>, a <strong>2.8% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>U.S. healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$11,673</strong>, a <strong>10.68% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>U.S. healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$10,546</strong>, a <strong>3.57% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

As of 2019, Switzerland had the highest direct healthcare costs per capita from melanoma across selected European countries at over *** thousand euros. Furthermore, in Norway around *** thousand euros per capita were directly spent in healthcare on melanoma.

In 2023, the United States had the highest per capita health expenditure among OECD countries. At that time, per capita health expenditure in the U.S. amounted over ****** U.S. dollars, significantly higher than in Switzerland, the country with the second-highest per capita health expenditure. Norway, Germany and Austria are also within the top five countries with the highest per capita health expenditure. The United States also spent the highest share of it’s gross domestic product on health care, with **** percent of its GDP spent on health care services. Health Expenditure in the U.S. The United States is the highest spending country worldwide when it comes to health care. In 2022, total health expenditure in the U.S. exceeded **** trillion dollars. Expenditure as a percentage of GDP is projected to increase to approximately ** percent by the year 2031. Distribution of Health Expenditure in the U.S. Health expenditure in the United States is spread out across multiple categories such as nursing home facilities, home health care, and prescription drugs. As of 2022, the majority of health expenditure in the United States was spent on hospital care, accounting for a bit less than *** third of all health spending. Hospital care was followed by spending on physician and clinical services which accounted for ** percent of overall health expenditure.

Qatar healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $1,782, a 3.54% decline from 2021.

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<li>Qatar healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$1,847</strong>, a <strong>6.11% decline</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Qatar healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$1,967</strong>, a <strong>2.01% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Qatar healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$2,008</strong>, a <strong>2.08% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

Argentina healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $1,371, a 26.83% increase from 2021.

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<li>Argentina healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$1,081</strong>, a <strong>21.18% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Argentina healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$892.00</strong>, a <strong>11.78% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Argentina healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$1,011</strong>, a <strong>16.41% decline</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

In 2019, higher income countries on average spent 1,333 U.S. dollars per capita on primary health care, this amount was 50 times higher than what low income countries spent per capital. This statistic displays the average per capita spending on PHC globally in 2019, by county income groups.

Costa Rica healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $978.84, a 0.17% increase from 2021.

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<li>Costa Rica healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$977.15</strong>, a <strong>0.75% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Costa Rica healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$969.89</strong>, a <strong>4.24% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Costa Rica healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$930.44</strong>, a <strong>1.43% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

East Asia & Pacific healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $837.62, a 4.73% decline from 2021.

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<li>East Asia & Pacific healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$879.24</strong>, a <strong>10.79% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>East Asia & Pacific healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$793.63</strong>, a <strong>5.11% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>East Asia & Pacific healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$755.05</strong>, a <strong>4.37% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

In 2019, the private health expenditure amounted to 692 euros per capita in Italy. This was a considerable increase compared to 2009, when people spent on average 492 euros per capita for health goods and services. Also, the total private health expenditure grew from 32.7 billion euros in 2012 to 40 billion euros in 2019.

Healthcare expenditure

In Italy, the national healthcare system (in Italian, Servizio Sanitario Nazionale - SSN) is mainly funded through national and regional taxes and is supplemented by out-of-pocket private expenditure and insurance schemes. In 2020, health expenditure in Italy accounted for 9.7 percent of the country’s GDP, a figure which remained rather stable in recent years but increased suddenly in 2020. Government funding accounted for approximately 70 percent of total healthcare expenditure.

 Private health expenditure

As mentioned above, private healthcare expenditure increased considerably in recent years. Who pays the most out-of-pocket for healthcare services? According to recent data, those who need to resort to out-of-pocket payments appear to be the elderly and individuals needing long-term care. In 2019, the direct expenditure on healthcare of individuals in these two categories was far higher than for younger individuals and for those with a good health condition.

Among OECD member countries, the United States had the highest percentage of gross domestic product spent on health care as of 2023. The U.S. spent nearly ** percent of its GDP on health care services. Germany, France and Japan followed the U.S. with distinctly smaller percentages. The United States had both significantly higher private and public spending on health compared with other developed countries. Why compare OECD countries?OECD stands for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. It is an economic organization consisting of ** members, mostly high-income countries and committed to democratic principles and market economy. This makes OECD statistics more comparable than statistics of developed and undeveloped countries. Health economics is an important matter for the OECD, even more since increasing health costs and an aging population have become an issue for many developed countries. Health costs in the U.S.  A higher GDP share spent on health care does not automatically lead to a better functioning health system. In the case of the U.S., high spending is mainly because of higher costs and prices, not due to higher utilization. For example, physicians’ salaries are much higher in the U.S. than in other comparable countries. A doctor in the U.S. earns almost twice as much as the average physician in Germany. Pharmaceutical spending per capita is also distinctly higher in the United States. Furthermore, the U.S. also spends more on health administrative costs compare to other wealthy countries.

The average for 2021 based on 181 countries was 7.21 percent. The highest value was in Afghanistan: 21.83 percent and the lowest value was in Brunei: 2.2 percent. The indicator is available from 2000 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2023, U.S. national health expenditure as a share of its gross domestic product (GDP) reached 17.6 percent, this was an increase on the previous year. The United States has the highest health spending based on GDP share among developed countries. Both public and private health spending in the U.S. is much higher than other developed countries. Why the U.S. pays so much moreWhile private health spending in Canada stays at around three percent and in Germany under two percent of the gross domestic product, it is nearly nine percent in the United States. Another reason for high costs can be found in physicians’ salaries, which are much higher in the U.S. than in other wealthy countries. A general practitioner in the U.S. earns nearly twice as much as the average physician in other high-income countries. Additionally, medicine spending per capita is also significantly higher in the United States. Finally, inflated health care administration costs are another of the predominant factors which make health care spending in the U.S. out of proportion. It is important to state that Americans do not pay more because they have a higher health care utilization, but mainly because of higher prices. Expected developmentsBy 2031, it is expected that health care spending in the U.S. will reach nearly one fifth of the nation’s gross domestic product. Or in dollar-terms, health care expenditures will accumulate to about seven trillion U.S. dollars in total.

Context

This dataset simply combines publicly available data to characterise a country based on healthcare factors, economy, government and demographics.

Content

All data are given per 100.000 inhabitants where this is appropriate scores are given as absolute values and so are spending and demographics. Each row represents one country. Data that is included covers the following topics:

Healthcare: - Staff including: Nurses and Physicians per 100.000 inhabitants - Infrastructure including: Beds, Chnage of beds between 2018 and 2019 and the change of bed numbers since 2013, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, ventilators and Extra Corporal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), machines per 100.000 inhabitants - Total spending on healthcare in US dollars per capita.

Demographics: - The median age for entire population and each gender - The percentage of the population within age brackets - Total population - Population per km2 - Population change between 2018 and 2019

Government The used scores are from the Economist intelligence unit and describe how democratic a country is and how the government works. These can be used to compare countries based on their government type.

Acknowledgements

All data is publicly available and just has been brought together in one place. The sources are:

• Population densities

• Populations

• ECMO machines

• Hospital beds

• Number of physicians

• Health expenditure per capita

• Democracy indexes

• Median age

• OECD nurses per capita

Inspiration

These data are meant as metadata to decide which countries are comparable. I am working on healthcare data so the inspiration is to compare health statistics between countries and make an informed decision about how comparable they are. Could be used for any non healthcare related task as well.

Vietnam healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $188.90, a 12.39% increase from 2021.

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<li>Vietnam healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$168.08</strong>, a <strong>9.78% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Vietnam healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$153.10</strong>, a <strong>10.55% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Vietnam healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$171.15</strong>, a <strong>5.66% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

Brazil healthcare spending per capita for 2022 was $848.57, a 10.45% increase from 2021.

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<li>Brazil healthcare spending per capita for 2021 was <strong>$768.27</strong>, a <strong>12.85% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Brazil healthcare spending per capita for 2020 was <strong>$680.77</strong>, a <strong>21.59% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Brazil healthcare spending per capita for 2019 was <strong>$868.17</strong>, a <strong>1.38% decline</strong> from 2018.</li>
</ul>Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.

Per capita national health expenditures in the United States have increased significantly since 1960. In 2023, national health expenditures amounted to **** thousand U.S. dollars per capita. For comparison, in 1960, per capital expenditures for health stood at *** U.S. dollars. According to recent data, the U.S. has some of the highest health care costs in the world. Health care expenditures With increased per capita health expenditures, U.S. health care expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP) have also increased over the decades. Among developed countries, the U.S. has the highest health expenditure as a proportion of the GDP. The high level of health costs in the U.S. may be attributable to high costs for prescribed drugs and health services as well as high administrative costs. Cost areas A large proportion of all health care spending in the U.S. is attributable to hospital care and physician and clinical services. In recent years, many sectors have seen an increase in health care spending. However, data suggests that prescription drugs have seen some of the most dramatic increases in spending in recent years. The annual prescription drug expenditures in the U.S. reached an all-time high by the end of 2022.

In 2019, the Brazilian government's expenditure on health reached nearly 1.4 thousand Brazilian reals per person, up from 1.38 thousand reals spent a year before. The highest annual expenditure per capita reported in the country was in 2014, when it added up to almost 1.42 thousand reals. As of October 2020, the Brazilian government spent over 44.9 billion Brazilian reals on hospital and outpatient care.