Current Health Expenditure per Capita in Japan (2025)
Japan's current health expenditure reached 5,872.6 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (preliminary), down from 5,884.2 in 2024. OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,872.6 | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 5,884.2 | -1.3% |
| 2023 | 5,963.6 | +1.5% |
| 2022 | 5,878.2 | +7.6% |
| 2021 | 5,465 | +12.5% |
| 2020 | 4,858.5 | +4.3% |
| 2019 | 4,659.6 | +2.6% |
| 2018 | 4,543.3 | +3.1% |
| 2017 | 4,405.5 | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 4,292.2 | -4.9% |
| 2015 | 4,515.6 | +4.3% |
| 2014 | 4,328.4 | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 4,308.3 | +8.5% |
| 2012 | 3,970.8 | +6.1% |
| 2011 | 3,740.8 | +18.0% |
| 2010 | 3,169.2 | +6.7% |
| 2009 | 2,971.4 | +6.2% |
| 2008 | 2,799.2 | +4.1% |
| 2007 | 2,690 | +5.0% |
| 2006 | 2,561.2 | +3.6% |
| 2005 | 2,471.2 | n/a |
About this Dataset
Japan recorded 5,872.6 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD preliminary estimate down -11.5 from 2024's provisional figure of 5,884.2. Spending has grown in most years since 2005, when the series started at 2,471.2 USD PPP, though 2024 and 2025 mark a rare two-year pause after 2022's steep +413.2 rise.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes typically fund the large majority of this spending: in 2023 (the last finalized year) they covered about 85.2% of the total (5,079.0 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 14.8% (884.6 USD PPP). That heavily government-financed split reflects Japan's universal statutory health insurance system and has stayed structurally similar over the past decade.
Compared with peer OECD economies, Japan's per-capita spending is likely running slightly above the OECD-38 average, roughly 3.6% over the unweighted average of about 5,754.7 USD PPP in 2023, and well ahead of South Korea (4,756.6 USD PPP) but far below the United States (13,932.6 USD PPP) that same year. 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 Japan (JPN), total current health expenditure, converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent year is flagged provisional or preliminary by the OECD and may be revised; a series break is flagged at 2011. The OECD-38 average is an unweighted mean computed across all current OECD member countries with reported data for the comparison year.