Current Health Expenditure per Capita in United States (2025)
United States's current health expenditure reached 15,843.3 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (estimated), up from 14,823.1 in 2024. OECD System of Health Accounts, 2005–2025.
Data
| Year | USD PPP per capita | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,843.3 | +6.9% |
| 2024 | 14,823.1 | +6.4% |
| 2023 | 13,932.6 | +6.7% |
| 2022 | 13,061.9 | +4.3% |
| 2021 | 12,523.7 | +3.7% |
| 2020 | 12,076.8 | +10.6% |
| 2019 | 10,922.2 | +4.2% |
| 2018 | 10,486.1 | +4.4% |
| 2017 | 10,045.4 | +3.3% |
| 2016 | 9,727.2 | +3.9% |
| 2015 | 9,360.4 | +4.8% |
| 2014 | 8,928.3 | +4.9% |
| 2013 | 8,512.1 | +2.1% |
| 2012 | 8,338.5 | +3.3% |
| 2011 | 8,073.5 | +2.5% |
| 2010 | 7,875.8 | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 7,641.9 | +3.5% |
| 2008 | 7,381.5 | +3.0% |
| 2007 | 7,163.8 | +5.3% |
| 2006 | 6,806.1 | +5.8% |
| 2005 | 6,431.9 | n/a |
About this Dataset
United States recorded 15,843.3 USD PPP per capita in current health expenditure in 2025, an OECD estimate up +1,020.1 from 2024's finalized figure of 14,823.1. Spending has grown in most years since 2005, when the series started at 6,431.9 USD PPP, with the steepest jump (+1,154.6) coming in 2020 as health systems absorbed pandemic-related costs.
Government and compulsory insurance schemes covered about 83.2% of total spending in 2025 (13,180.8 USD PPP per capita), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments making up the remaining 16.8% (2,662.5 USD PPP). That split is not directly comparable to pre-2014 data: it jumped from 49.4% government/compulsory in 2013 to 82.5% in 2014 when the OECD reclassified ACA-mandated private insurance as a compulsory scheme, a definitional change rather than an economic one.
Compared with OECD peers, US per-capita spending was roughly 2.4 times the unweighted OECD average (about 6,096.6 USD PPP in 2024) and well above other high-income economies such as Switzerland (9,926.7), Germany (9,584.3), Australia (7,884.9), and Canada (7,372.3) in 2024. 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 the United States (USA), total current health expenditure (HC), converted to USD at purchasing power parity. The most recent year is flagged as an OECD estimate and may be revised.