Current Health Expenditure per Capita in Canada (2025)
Canada's current health expenditure reached 7,505.9 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (preliminary), up from 7,372.3 in 2024. OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7,505.9 | +1.8% |
| 2024 | 7,372.3 | +2.3% |
| 2023 | 7,208.1 | +4.3% |
| 2022 | 6,910.4 | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 6,897 | +11.3% |
| 2020 | 6,195.9 | +14.8% |
| 2019 | 5,395 | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 5,333.6 | +2.9% |
| 2017 | 5,185.1 | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 5,049.3 | +8.8% |
| 2015 | 4,640.7 | +2.2% |
| 2014 | 4,541.8 | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 4,433.8 | +2.1% |
| 2012 | 4,341.2 | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 4,231.3 | +1.8% |
| 2010 | 4,156.9 | +5.3% |
| 2009 | 3,946.8 | +2.5% |
| 2008 | 3,850 | +3.7% |
| 2007 | 3,711.3 | +6.4% |
| 2006 | 3,488 | +6.0% |
| 2005 | 3,292 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Canada recorded 7,505.9 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD preliminary estimate up +133.7 from 2024's finalized figure of 7,372.3. Spending has grown in most years since 2005, when the series started at 3,292.0 USD PPP, with the steepest jump — +701.1 — coming in 2021 as health systems absorbed pandemic-related costs.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes typically fund most of this spending: in 2024 they covered about 70.6% of the total (5,205.7 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 29.4% (2,166.6 USD PPP). That government-heavy split has stayed broadly consistent over the past decade.
Compared with peer OECD economies, Canada's per-capita spending is likely far below the United States (14,823.1 USD PPP in 2024) but broadly in line with Australia (7,884.9 USD PPP in 2024). 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 Canada (CAN), total current health expenditure (HC), converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent year is flagged provisional by the OECD and may be revised.