Current Health Expenditure per Capita in New Zealand (2025)
New Zealand's current health expenditure reached 6,057.3 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (estimated), down from 6,067.1 in 2024 (provisional). OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,057.3 | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 6,067.1 | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 6,059 | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 6,158.6 | +26.5% |
| 2021 | 4,869.4 | +11.9% |
| 2020 | 4,352.7 | +8.7% |
| 2019 | 4,003.8 | +7.9% |
| 2018 | 3,712 | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 3,695 | +4.2% |
| 2016 | 3,545.6 | +5.7% |
| 2015 | 3,355.1 | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 3,334.7 | +3.0% |
| 2013 | 3,237.7 | +4.6% |
| 2012 | 3,095.5 | +3.2% |
| 2011 | 3,000.1 | +3.8% |
| 2010 | 2,890.6 | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 2,804.5 | +4.3% |
| 2008 | 2,689.4 | +5.9% |
| 2007 | 2,538.9 | +4.1% |
| 2006 | 2,437.8 | +11.1% |
| 2005 | 2,194.4 | n/a |
About this Dataset
New Zealand recorded 6,057.3 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD estimate down -9.8 from 2024's provisional figure of 6,067.1. Spending has risen in most years since 2005, when the series started at 2,194.4 USD PPP, with the steepest jump — +1,289.3 — coming in 2022.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes typically fund most of this spending: in 2023, the last finalized year, they covered about 80.6% of the total (4,880.7 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 19.4% (1,178.3 USD PPP). That split has stayed fairly stable over the past decade, similar to about 81.2% in 2010.
Compared with peer OECD economies, New Zealand's per-capita spending is likely above the typical OECD level — roughly 105.3% of the unweighted OECD-38 average of about 5,755.1 USD PPP in 2023 — though it ran below Australia (7,574.1 USD PPP) and 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 New Zealand (NZL), total current health expenditure, converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent years are flagged provisional (2024) and estimated (2025) 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.