{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"us-health-expenditure-per-capita","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/us-health-expenditure-per-capita","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/us-health-expenditure-per-capita/","title":"Current Health Expenditure per Capita in United States (2025)","description":"United States's current health expenditure reached 15,843.3 USD PPP per capita in 2025 (estimated), up from 14,823.1 in 2024. 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It covers spending by government, private insurers, and households, published annually by the OECD under its System of Health Accounts (SHA). The most recent reading is 15,843.3 USD PPP in 2025 (estimated)."},{"question":"How current is this data, and how reliable is the latest figure?","answer":"The series runs through 2025, though that year is flagged as an OECD estimate. The last fully finalized observation is 2024, at 14,823.1 USD PPP per capita. Figures are typically revised as national health accounts are finalized, so the 2025 value may shift in future OECD updates."},{"question":"How does US spending compare with the OECD average and peer countries?","answer":"At 14,823.1 USD PPP in 2024, US spending ran roughly 2.4 times the unweighted OECD average of about 6,096.6 USD PPP that year across 38 member countries. It also sat well above other large, high-income OECD economies such as Switzerland (9,926.7 USD PPP), Germany (9,584.3 USD PPP), Canada (7,372.3 USD PPP), and Australia (7,884.9 USD PPP) in 2024, making the US typically the highest per-capita spender in the OECD."},{"question":"What is the split between government and private spending?","answer":"In 2025, government and compulsory schemes covered an estimated 13,180.8 USD PPP per capita (about 83.2% of the total), with voluntary insurance and household out-of-pocket payments accounting for roughly 2,662.5 USD PPP (about 16.8%). This split is not comparable to years before 2014: the government/compulsory share jumped from 49.4% in 2013 to 82.5% in 2014 when OECD reclassified mandated private health insurance from voluntary to compulsory financing following the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, not because of a real shift in who pays."},{"question":"What is the long-term trend?","answer":"Per-capita spending has risen in most years since 2005, from 6,431.9 USD PPP that year to 15,843.3 USD PPP in 2025 — an increase of roughly 146% over two decades, and +69.3% just since 2015. The largest single-year jump was +1,154.6 USD PPP in 2020, likely reflecting pandemic-related health outlays, followed by +1,020.1 in the 2025 estimate."}]}