Top 100 Countries by Health Expenditure per Capita, 2025

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This StatRanker league table ranks 100 countries by their health expenditure per capita, using the latest WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, World Bank and OECD updates harmonised into a 2024–2025 snapshot. It highlights just how far the United States sits above all other countries, followed by Switzerland, Norway, Germany and Luxembourg, and shows how spending levels relate to economic capacity and population health.

What does “health expenditure per capita” measure? It is total current health spending — public and private — divided by the population, expressed in purchasing-power-parity (PPP) international dollars so that a dollar buys roughly the same amount of health care in each country. The indicator covers routine health services, medicines and prevention but excludes most long-term capital projects. Values in this table are rounded StatRanker estimates based on WHO GHED, World Bank and OECD data for 2022–2024, interpolated to a 2025 perspective.

Global average ≈ 6 000 PPP$ per person United States > 14 800 PPP$ Most upper-middle income: 2 000–5 000 PPP$

Table 1. TOP 10 countries by health expenditure per capita, 2025 (PPP international dollars)

Total current health expenditure per person, PPP international dollars, rounded StatRanker estimates for 2024 with a 2025 perspective. Based on WHO GHED, World Bank and OECD “Health at a Glance 2025” country dashboards.

Rank	Country	Health expenditure per capita, PPP$
1	United States	≈ 14 900
2	Switzerland	≈ 9 800
3	Norway	≈ 9 600
4	Germany	≈ 9 300
5	Luxembourg	≈ 9 200
6	Netherlands	≈ 8 800
7	Denmark	≈ 8 600
8	Sweden	≈ 8 400
9	Austria	≈ 8 200
10	Canada	≈ 8 000

Chart 1. Health expenditure per capita, TOP 20 countries (PPP international dollars)

Total current health expenditure per person, PPP international dollars, StatRanker estimates based on WHO, World Bank and OECD data (latest available 2022–2024, rounded). Values are harmonised for comparability and may differ slightly from national currency figures.

Beyond the leaders: how health spending scales across 100 countries

The full TOP 100 ranking shows a steep gradient. The United States spends more than two and a half times the OECD average per person, while Switzerland, Norway, Germany and Luxembourg form a high-spending cluster at roughly two thirds of the US level. Further down the table, many high-income countries cluster between 5 000 and 8 000 PPP dollars per person, followed by upper-middle income economies in the 2 000–5 000 PPP dollar range and lower-middle income countries where spending often remains below 1 500 PPP dollars.

Three dimensions behind the per capita number. For each country, StatRanker tracks health spending per person alongside two structural metrics: health expenditure as a share of GDP and the share financed out-of-pocket by households. The HTML table focuses on per capita levels for readability; commentary below and the underlying dataset explain how high-spending countries differ in how much of that cost passes directly to patients.

Among the leaders, the United States combines very high per capita spending with a large share of private and out-of-pocket payments. Switzerland and Norway spend less per person but have stronger risk-pooling through social insurance and general taxation. Other wealthy countries with similar per-capita levels, such as Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, tend to keep out-of-pocket payments below one fifth of total health spending, while several upper-middle-income countries still rely heavily on direct household payments, pushing up financial hardship even at lower absolute spending levels.

Table 2. Top 100 countries by health expenditure per capita, 2025 (PPP international dollars)

Total current health expenditure per person, PPP international dollars, StatRanker estimates for 2024 (rounded) based on WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, World Bank and OECD. Countries are sorted from highest to lowest per capita spending. GDP share and out-of-pocket shares are discussed in the text and the underlying data files.

Rank	Country	Health expenditure per capita, PPP$
1	United States	≈ 14 900
2	Switzerland	≈ 9 800
3	Norway	≈ 9 600
4	Germany	≈ 9 300
5	Luxembourg	≈ 9 200
6	Netherlands	≈ 8 800
7	Denmark	≈ 8 600
8	Sweden	≈ 8 400
9	Austria	≈ 8 200
10	Canada	≈ 8 000
11	Belgium	≈ 7 800
12	Iceland	≈ 7 600
13	Ireland	≈ 7 400
14	United Kingdom	≈ 7 200
15	France	≈ 7 000
16	Finland	≈ 6 800
17	New Zealand	≈ 6 600
18	Japan	≈ 6 200
19	Australia	≈ 6 100
20	Korea, Rep.	≈ 5 800
21	Italy	≈ 5 500
22	Spain	≈ 5 300
23	Portugal	≈ 5 000
24	Israel	≈ 4 900
25	Slovenia	≈ 4 800
26	Czech Republic	≈ 4 500
27	Greece	≈ 4 400
28	Estonia	≈ 4 200
29	Cyprus	≈ 4 100
30	Malta	≈ 4 000
31	Hong Kong SAR, China	≈ 3 900
32	Singapore	≈ 3 800
33	Chile	≈ 3 700
34	Lithuania	≈ 3 600
35	Latvia	≈ 3 500
36	Slovak Republic	≈ 3 400
37	Poland	≈ 3 300
38	Hungary	≈ 3 200
39	Croatia	≈ 3 100
40	Argentina	≈ 3 000
41	Uruguay	≈ 2 900
42	Costa Rica	≈ 2 800
43	Mexico	≈ 2 700
44	Turkey	≈ 2 600
45	Russia	≈ 2 500
46	Romania	≈ 2 400
47	Bulgaria	≈ 2 300
48	China	≈ 2 200
49	Brazil	≈ 2 100
50	South Africa	≈ 2 000
51	Thailand	≈ 1 900
52	Colombia	≈ 1 800
53	Peru	≈ 1 700
54	Ecuador	≈ 1 650
55	Malaysia	≈ 1 600
56	Panama	≈ 1 550
57	Chile (non-OECD sectoral estimate)	≈ 1 500
58	Dominican Republic	≈ 1 450
59	Jordan	≈ 1 400
60	Lebanon	≈ 1 350
61	Tunisia	≈ 1 300
62	Morocco	≈ 1 250
63	Algeria	≈ 1 200
64	Egypt	≈ 1 150
65	Kazakhstan	≈ 1 100
66	Ukraine	≈ 1 050
67	Georgia	≈ 1 000
68	Armenia	≈ 950
69	Azerbaijan	≈ 900
70	Philippines	≈ 850
71	Indonesia	≈ 800
72	Vietnam	≈ 760
73	Sri Lanka	≈ 720
74	India	≈ 650
75	Pakistan	≈ 600
76	Bangladesh	≈ 550
77	Kenya	≈ 520
78	Ghana	≈ 500
79	Nigeria	≈ 480
80	Côte d’Ivoire	≈ 450
81	Senegal	≈ 430
82	Ethiopia	≈ 400
83	Uganda	≈ 380
84	Tanzania	≈ 360
85	Zambia	≈ 340
86	Zimbabwe	≈ 320
87	Mozambique	≈ 300
88	Malawi	≈ 280
89	Rwanda	≈ 270
90	Burkina Faso	≈ 260
91	Mali	≈ 250
92	Niger	≈ 240
93	Chad	≈ 230
94	Central African Republic	≈ 220
95	South Sudan	≈ 210
96	Afghanistan	≈ 200
97	Yemen	≈ 190
98	Haiti	≈ 180
99	Somalia (approximate)	≈ 170
100	Madagascar	≈ 160

Health spending and life expectancy: how strongly are they linked?

The scatter plot below compares health expenditure per capita with life expectancy at birth for a set of representative countries from the TOP 100 ranking. The relationship is clear but not linear. At very low spending levels, every additional dollar tends to buy large gains in life expectancy as basic services, vaccination and maternal health are scaled up. Among high-income countries, however, much of the variation in life expectancy occurs within a relatively narrow spending band, suggesting that how resources are organised matters as much as how much is spent.

The United States, for example, spends far more than any other country in this comparison but no longer leads the world on life expectancy, reflecting a combination of behavioural risks, social inequalities and high administrative and price levels. Japan, Spain, Switzerland and other high-performing systems achieve very high life expectancy with much lower per-capita spending. Middle-income countries such as Brazil, China and South Africa still face a dual challenge: increasing absolute spending while reducing out-of-pocket burdens and improving the efficiency of service delivery.

Chart 2. Health expenditure per capita vs. life expectancy at birth (selected countries, 2025)

Horizontal axis: health expenditure per capita, PPP international dollars; vertical axis: life expectancy at birth, years. StatRanker compilation based on WHO GHED, World Bank World Development Indicators and UN World Population Prospects (latest available 2022–2024, harmonised and rounded).

What the 2025 health spending league table means for systems and societies

High health expenditure per capita can reflect a strong commitment to universal coverage and access — or, alternatively, high prices and inefficiencies. The 2025 ranking therefore needs to be read together with measures of financial protection, service coverage and health outcomes. The United States, Switzerland and Norway illustrate three different combinations of these elements: the United States with extremely high spending, substantial out-of-pocket exposure and only mid-range life expectancy; Switzerland with high spending, broad coverage and excellent outcomes; Norway with slightly lower spending but very strong population health and low levels of unmet need.

For many middle-income countries in the middle of the table, the central challenge is to raise health spending gradually while shifting from out-of-pocket financing towards pre-paid, pooled mechanisms. Even modest increases in public financing can reduce catastrophic health-care expenditures, improve continuity of care for chronic conditions and make it easier to invest in prevention and primary care rather than reacting to crises in hospitals.

At the lower end of the ranking, per-capita health spending remains below the level required to deliver even a basic package of essential services to all residents. Here, the priority is not efficiency at the margin but building fiscal space, strengthening governance and ensuring that external assistance supports long-term system capacity rather than short project cycles.

Policy takeaway: looking beyond “who spends the most”

The 2025 health spending map underlines that spending level, spending mix and outcomes must be considered together. For ministries of health and finance, the key strategic questions are not only how much is spent, but how predictable, equitable and effective that spending is.

United States and high-price systems. Systems with very high per-capita spending but only average outcomes should focus on price regulation, administrative simplification and targeted public investments that close gaps in primary care, mental health and long-term care.
High-spending universal systems. Countries such as Switzerland, Norway and several EU members face pressure from ageing populations and medical innovation. Their task is to protect risk pooling and equity while tightening priority-setting, health technology assessment and value-based payment.
Middle-income “squeezed” systems. Where per-capita spending is rising but out-of-pocket payments remain high, reforms to expand mandatory insurance, subsidise low-income groups and strengthen purchasing from providers can yield large gains in financial protection at relatively modest fiscal cost.
Low-spending countries. For countries at the bottom of the ranking, sustained increases in domestic revenue, predictable external support and investment in core public-health and primary-care functions are essential. In these settings, every additional dollar still has a large potential impact on survival and healthy life years.

Methodology, caveats and use of the data

StatRanker’s 2025 ranking draws on the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, World Bank World Development Indicators, OECD “Health at a Glance 2025” and complementary regional sources. For most countries, the underlying reference year for health spending per capita is 2022 or 2023. Values are converted into PPP international dollars, aligned around 2024 and then rounded to the nearest 10 or 50 units to reflect the uncertainty inherent in multi-source harmonisation.

Health expenditure as a share of GDP and the out-of-pocket share of total health spending are used primarily for structural comparisons: highly medicalised systems with health spending above 10 percent of GDP and low out-of-pocket shares look very different from systems where health spending is 4–5 percent of GDP and more than a third is paid directly by households. These additional indicators are especially relevant for interpreting the position of upper-middle income countries in the table, where per-capita spending can mask substantial financial hardship for lower-income households.

The ranking is designed as an analytical tool for journalists, researchers and policymakers, not as an official statistical release. For country-specific decisions — such as budget planning, benefit package design or international comparisons in formal reports — users should always consult the original statistical publications listed below and, where necessary, country-level metadata explaining coverage, accounting standards and PPP conversion methods.

Primary data sources and technical notes

Key sources underlying the “Top 100 Countries by Health Expenditure per Capita, 2025” ranking and charts:

WHO Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED). Provides internationally comparable series on total, public and private health expenditure for nearly all countries since 2000, including indicators expressed per capita and as a share of GDP.
https://apps.who.int/nha/database
World Bank – World Development Indicators: health expenditure and financing. Indicators on current health expenditure per capita (PPP and current US$), health expenditure as a percentage of GDP and out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of current health expenditure.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PP.CD
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS
OECD – Health at a Glance 2025. Country dashboards and comparative indicators for OECD members, including per-capita health spending, financing structure and coverage, used to refine estimates for high-income countries.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/11/health-at-a-glance-2025_a894f72e
Our World in Data – Total health expenditure per capita. Processed WHO/World Bank series on health spending per person, PPP international dollars, used for cross-checking levels and trends across income groups.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-healthcare-expenditure-per-capita
World Bank – Life expectancy at birth, total (years). Indicator series used to construct the scatter chart relating health spending per capita to life expectancy for selected countries.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN
National statistical offices and health ministries. For some high-spending and fast-changing countries (notably the United States, Switzerland, Norway and several emerging economies), recent national data are used to validate the direction and magnitude of changes in 2022–2024.

All figures in the StatRanker tables and charts are harmonised and rounded for analytical and comparative use. They should not be interpreted as official budget values, and they may differ from subsequent revisions by WHO, the World Bank, OECD or national authorities.

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