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Health Spending per Capita in Europe by Country (2023)

Health expenditure per inhabitant across 33 European countries in 2023: 10,876 EUR in Switzerland against 525 EUR in Georgia — a twentyfold gap. Eurostat data.

Data through 2023 Updated Annual Eurostat
Average of the panel (2023)
4,030
EUR per inhabitant
+175 vs 2022
Highest
10,876
Switzerland
Lowest
525
Georgia
Countries ranked
33
with a published figure

Data

Health Spending per Capita in Europe by Country (2023) — source data. Eurostat.
# Country EUR per inhabitant Change vs 2022
1 Switzerland 10,876 +471
2 Liechtenstein 10,562 +541
3 Luxembourg 6,888 +298
4 Iceland 6,567 +79
5 Ireland 6,264 +320
6 Denmark 6,049 -142
7 Germany 5,902 -15
8 Netherlands 5,896 +239
9 Austria 5,848 +286
10 Sweden 5,710 -1
11 Belgium 5,514 +320
12 Finland 5,117 +451
13 France 4,743 +142
14 Malta 3,286 +159
15 Italy 3,039 +42
16 Spain 2,857 +75
17 Slovenia 2,805 +211
18 Cyprus 2,630 +82
19 Portugal 2,549 +87
20 Czechia 2,462 +184
21 Estonia 2,082 +208
22 Lithuania 1,881 +155
23 Greece 1,819 +136
24 Slovakia 1,678 +117
25 Latvia 1,519 -34
26 Poland 1,463 +270
27 Croatia 1,430 +151
28 Hungary 1,315 +150
29 Bulgaria 1,163 +146
30 Montenegro 1,084 +106
31 Romania 972 +114
32 Serbia 912 +101
33 Georgia 525 n/a

About this Dataset

Measured in euro per person, European health systems differ by a factor of about twenty: 10,876 EUR in Switzerland against 525 EUR in Georgia. The panel average is 4,030 EUR, +175 on 2022.

This is the ranking that describes what a patient encounters — staff per bed, scanner availability, waiting time. The share-of-GDP ranking describes what a government has chosen to prioritise. They are not the same list.

Two adjustments matter before reading the spread literally. Market exchange rates overstate it, because healthcare is labour-intensive and wages are far lower at the bottom of the table; in purchasing power terms the gap narrows to roughly four to one. And a high share of spending in the lower-ranked countries is out-of-pocket rather than pooled, so the publicly available resource per person is lower still. Spain sits 16th with 2,857 EUR while ranking near the top of Europe on life expectancy, which is the clearest illustration in this data that resources and outcomes are only loosely coupled.

Every row is the figure published for 2023; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. Norway has not published a 2023 figure and is left out rather than carried forward from an older year. The chart tracks a fixed panel of 30 countries: those reporting in every year from 2014. The line therefore moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. Figures are at current prices in euro under the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) and cover current expenditure only.

Country pages: Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Luxembourg · Iceland · Ireland · Denmark · Germany · Netherlands · Austria · Sweden · Belgium · Finland · France · Malta · Italy · Spain · Slovenia · Cyprus · Portugal · Czechia · Estonia · Lithuania · Greece · Slovakia · Latvia · Poland · Croatia · Hungary · Bulgaria · Montenegro · Romania · Serbia · Georgia

Frequently Asked Questions

Switzerland, at 10,876 EUR per inhabitant in 2023, ahead of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Iceland. Note how different this ordering is from the share-of-GDP ranking: Switzerland and Luxembourg move to the top because their incomes are high, while Germany, which leads on the GDP share, ranks seventh here.

10,876 EUR per person at the top against 525 EUR at the bottom, measured at market exchange rates. Converting to purchasing power standards narrows the gap substantially, because healthcare is labour-intensive and staff cost far less in lower-income countries. Even adjusted, the ratio between the best- and worst-resourced European health systems remains roughly four to one.

Per capita in euro tells you what resources a health system actually commands, which is what determines staffing levels, equipment and waiting times. Share of GDP tells you what priority a country gives health relative to its means, which is the policy question. A country can be generous by the second measure and poorly resourced by the first — Romania and Bulgaria are the clearest cases in this ranking.
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