Health Expenditure per Capita by Country
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Health Expenditure per Capita by CountryThe United States spent 13,473 dollars per person on health in 2023, nearly three times the 4,549 dollars it spent in 2000 and more than double the next highest country, Germany at 6,395. The spread across this group is extreme: US spending is about 159 times India total of 85 dollars per person. China shows the fastest growth of the group, from 43 to 763 dollars per person, a rise of almost eighteen times, with Russia next at more than ten times. Japan is the caution for this measure: its total fell from 4,844 dollars in 2021 to 3,638 in 2023. Because the series is converted at market exchange rates, a weaker currency lowers the dollar figure on its own.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank Open Data
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2000–2023 (7 years) · 84 observations
- Measure
- Health Expenditure per Capita (current US$)
- Last updated
- 22 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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