Current Health Expenditure per Capita in Costa Rica (2025)
Costa Rica's current health expenditure reached 2,207.8 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (estimate), up from 2,057.7 in 2024. OECD System of Health Accounts, 2011–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,207.8 | +7.3% |
| 2024 | 2,057.7 | +8.2% |
| 2023 | 1,901.8 | +8.1% |
| 2022 | 1,759.4 | +2.9% |
| 2021 | 1,709.3 | +8.1% |
| 2020 | 1,581.4 | -1.4% |
| 2019 | 1,603.6 | +5.3% |
| 2018 | 1,522.3 | +6.0% |
| 2017 | 1,436.6 | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 1,403.2 | +2.3% |
| 2015 | 1,372.2 | +5.4% |
| 2014 | 1,302.3 | +6.0% |
| 2013 | 1,228.6 | +1.6% |
| 2012 | 1,209 | +3.5% |
| 2011 | 1,167.5 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Costa Rica recorded 2,207.8 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD estimate up +150.1 from 2024's finalized figure of 2,057.7. Spending has grown in most years since 2011, when the series started at 1,167.6 USD PPP, with the steepest jump, +156.0, coming in 2024.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes typically fund the large majority of this spending: in 2024 they covered about 69.5% of the total (1,430.0 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 30.5% (627.7 USD PPP). This government-heavy split is consistent with Costa Rica's social insurance system, run through the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social.
Compared with OECD peers, Costa Rica's per-capita spending in 2024 (2,057.7 USD PPP) was roughly 33.2% of the unweighted average of about 6,205.8 USD PPP across the other 37 OECD member countries for that year — well below the United States (14,823.1 USD PPP) and Chile (4,002.9 USD PPP), and close to regional peer Colombia (2,089.8 USD PPP). The chart above shows the full 2011–2025 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 Costa Rica (CRI), total current health expenditure across all financing schemes, converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent year is flagged provisional by the OECD and may be revised; 2018 is flagged as a break in series. The OECD average cited above is an unweighted mean across the 37 other current OECD member countries, computed from the same dataset and vintage.