Current Health Expenditure per Capita in Australia (2025)
Australia's current health expenditure reached 8,170.6 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (estimated), up from 7,884.9 in 2024 (estimated). OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,170.6 | +3.6% |
| 2024 | 7,884.9 | +4.1% |
| 2023 | 7,574.1 | +8.5% |
| 2022 | 6,982.3 | +5.9% |
| 2021 | 6,592.3 | +12.6% |
| 2020 | 5,855.2 | +10.9% |
| 2019 | 5,280.9 | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 5,226.1 | +2.9% |
| 2017 | 5,077.5 | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 5,037.4 | +5.9% |
| 2015 | 4,755.7 | +4.4% |
| 2014 | 4,556.5 | +11.5% |
| 2013 | 4,087.8 | +6.1% |
| 2012 | 3,854.2 | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 3,809.1 | +6.0% |
| 2010 | 3,592.9 | +5.2% |
| 2009 | 3,415 | +1.9% |
| 2008 | 3,350.1 | +4.7% |
| 2007 | 3,199.6 | +6.7% |
| 2006 | 2,997.9 | +4.4% |
| 2005 | 2,872.4 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Australia recorded 8,170.6 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD estimate up +285.7 from 2024's estimated figure of 7,884.9. Spending has grown in most years since 2005, when the series started at 2,872.4 USD PPP, with the steepest jump (+737.1) coming in 2021 as the health system absorbed pandemic-related costs.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes covered about 73.1% of total spending in 2025 (5,973.7 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 26.9% (2,196.8 USD PPP). The government-funded share has climbed fairly steadily from around 68% in the mid-2000s, likely reflecting broadening Medicare and pharmaceutical subsidy coverage rather than a single policy shift.
Compared with OECD peers, Australia's per-capita spending was roughly 1.3 times the unweighted OECD average (about 6,096.6 USD PPP in 2024) and typically above other large, high-income economies such as Canada (7,372.3), the United Kingdom (7,008.3), and New Zealand (6,067.1) in 2024, while sitting well below the United States (14,823.1), Switzerland (9,926.7), and Germany (9,584.3). The chart above shows the full 2005–2025 trend; the table below lists annual values with year-on-year changes.
Data sourced from the OECD System of Health Accounts (SHA) via SDMX REST API, filtered to Australia (AUS), total current health expenditure (HC), converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The 2024 and 2025 figures are flagged as OECD estimates and may be revised.