Current Health Expenditure per Capita in South Korea (2025)
South Korea's current health expenditure reached 5,281.7 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (preliminary), up from 5,098.7 in 2024. OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,281.7 | +3.6% |
| 2024 | 5,098.7 | +7.2% |
| 2023 | 4,756.6 | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 4,714.8 | +14.8% |
| 2021 | 4,106.4 | +13.5% |
| 2020 | 3,618.1 | +7.2% |
| 2019 | 3,374.8 | +9.2% |
| 2018 | 3,091 | +9.1% |
| 2017 | 2,832.1 | +5.3% |
| 2016 | 2,689.8 | +6.0% |
| 2015 | 2,538.3 | +12.5% |
| 2014 | 2,255.9 | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 2,163.5 | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 2,101.8 | +4.3% |
| 2011 | 2,014.3 | +5.0% |
| 2010 | 1,917.8 | +11.3% |
| 2009 | 1,723.6 | +9.4% |
| 2008 | 1,575.7 | +8.8% |
| 2007 | 1,448.2 | +8.8% |
| 2006 | 1,330.7 | +12.2% |
| 2005 | 1,186.4 | n/a |
About this Dataset
South Korea recorded 5,281.7 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD preliminary estimate up +183.0 from 2024's finalized figure of 5,098.7. Spending has grown in most years since 2005, when the series started at 1,186.4 USD PPP, with the steepest jump — +608.3 — coming in 2022.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes typically fund most of this spending: in 2024 they covered about 59.8% of the total (3,048.97 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 40.2% (2,049.73 USD PPP). That split has shifted gradually toward government financing over the past decade, up from about 56.8% in 2010.
Compared with peer OECD economies, South Korea's per-capita spending is likely still below the OECD-38 average — roughly 82.6% of the unweighted average of about 5,755.1 USD PPP in 2023 — and well below Japan (5,963.6 USD PPP) and 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 South Korea (KOR), total current health expenditure, converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent year is flagged provisional by the OECD and may be revised. The OECD-38 average is an unweighted mean computed across all current OECD member countries with reported data for the comparison year.