Countries that spend the most on health – ranked

A global ranking of countries that spend the most on health, measured by current expenditure per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP).

The World Health Organisation (WHO) uses the Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED) to provide internationally comparable data on health spending.

The WHO works collaboratively with UN Member States to annually update the database using the latest data. It ranks countries by how much they spend on health by using a nation’s current expenditure on health per capita expressed in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP).

The purchasing power of any currency is the quantity of that currency required to buy a specified unit of a good, common goods or services. PPP is determined in each country based on its relative cost of living and inflation rates.

By using PPP, it is possible to compare dissimilar regions and countries and effectively draw comparisons between national expenditures on health. International dollars is used as a global currency for comparison.

Countries that spend the most on health – complete ranking

The table ranks 188 countries by their current health expenditure per capita expressed in international dollars ($) at purchasing power parity (PPP).

Some countries have been omitted due to inadequate data.

Rank	Country	International $
1	USA	10,246.14
2	Switzerland	8,216.96
3	Norway	6,518.87
4	Luxembourg	5,956.48
5	Germany	5,922.64
6	Sweden	5,699.61
7	Austria	5,617.40
8	Ireland	5,544.68
9	Netherlands	5,513.10
10	Denmark	5,510.00
11	Andorra	5,237.24
12	Belgium	5,119.07
13	France	5,011.20
14	Canada	4,928.63
15	Australia	4,816.15
16	Iceland	4,721.43
17	Japan	4,563.46
18	San Marino	4,369.72
19	UK	4,338.37
20	Singapore	4,269.96
21	Finland	4,255.22
22	Malta	3,943.10
23	Kuwait	3,796.71
24	New Zealand	3,767.51
25	Italy	3,619.70
26	Spain	3,468.69
27	Qatar	3,354.38
28	Israel	3,014.65
29	Monaco	2,991.06
30	South Korea	2,980.16
31	Slovenia	2,960.59
32	Portugal	2,917.36
33	Saudi Arabia	2,826.33
34	Czech Republic	2,753.38
35	Cuba	2,485.81
36	UAE	2,468.55
37	Cyprus	2,430.18
38	Greece	2,295.33
39	Bahrain	2,265.28
40	Chile	2,228.56
41	Trinidad & Tobago	2,205.81
42	Slovakia	2,184.20
43	Estonia	2,153.34
44	Lithuania	2,132.61
45	Uruguay	2,101.91
46	Hungary	1,979.40
47	Poland	1,958.17
48	Argentina	1,916.50
49	Brunei Darussalam	1,874.95
50	Panama	1,794.81
51	Palau	1,777.80
52	Croatia	1,772.48
53	The Bahamas	1,756.14
54	Iran	1,748.40
55	Bulgaria	1,689.69
56	Latvia	1,682.34
57	Oman	1,590.84
58	Maldives	1,506.94
59	Seychelles	1,485.47
60	Brazil	1,472.23
61	St. Kitts & Nevis	1,442.13
62	Russia	1,404.22
63	Serbia	1,382.16
64	Romania	1,367.79
65	Barbados	1,343.23
66	Nauru	1,309.59
67	Mauritius	1,278.01
68	Costa Rica	1,262.16
69	Turkmenistan	1,249.63
70	Lebanon	1,185.33
71	Turkey	1,180.64
72	Bosnia & Herz.	1,172.37
73	Azerbaijan	1,163.86
74	Malaysia	1,138.96
75	Belarus	1,129.11
76	South Africa	1,097.82
77	Antigua & Barbuda	1,070.77
78	Botswana	1,044.30
79	Colombia	1,039.16
80	Mexico	1,035.59
81	Armenia	1,001.07
82	Dominican Republic	985.73
83	Algeria	974.81
84	Ecuador	958.86
85	Suriname	946.38
86	North Macedonia	926.92
87	Namibia	895.36
88	Paraguay	866.63
89	Tunisia	863.29
90	China	841.11
91	Kazakhstan	820.35
92	Georgia	773.27
93	Equatorial Guinea	758.93
94	Jordan	756.66
95	Grenada	721.08
96	Marshall Islands	709.68
97	Tuvalu	694.33
98	Peru	681.23
99	Thailand	670.88
100	St. Lucia	662.31
101	Dominica	656.67
102	Libya	627.28
103	Egypt	613.81
104	Eswatini	600.12
105	Ukraine	584.59
106	El Salvador	582.74
107	Jamaica	542.89
108	St. Vincent & Gren.	528.07
109	Mongolia	518.13
110	Nicaragua	506.15
111	Sri Lanka	503.56
112	Gabon	499.61
113	Iraq	494.76
114	Micronesia	493.21
115	Bolivia	491.68
116	Belize	481.03
117	Moldova	476.73
118	Guatemala	474.85
119	Uzbekistan	447.87
120	Morocco	438.09
121	Guyana	405.08
122	Honduras	394.76
123	Vietnam	375.64
124	Philippines	371.74
125	Indonesia	367.94
126	Samoa	363.96
127	Cabo Verde	357.07
128	Tonga	335.31
129	Fiji	322.76
130	Sudan	313.68
131	Bhutan	290.42
132	Myanmar	287.64
133	Lesotho	265.54
134	Timor-Leste	263.84
135	India	253.32
136	Kyrgyzstan	241.25
137	Cambodia	238.18
138	Kiribati	234.93
139	Tajikistan	231.42
140	Nigeria	221.1
141	Sao Tome & Prin.	209.24
142	Sierra Leone	205.36
143	Zimbabwe	201.05
144	Angola	185.85
145	Zambia	180.27
146	Laos	177.93
147	South Sudan	175.77
148	Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	175.66
149	Afghanistan	174.73
150	Cameroon	173.86
151	Mauritania	170.15
152	Congo	164.83
153	Pakistan	160.56
154	Syria	159.72
155	Kenya	158.16
156	Nepal	150.07
157	Ghana	146.87
158	Haiti	146.15
159	Senegal	143.09
160	Venezuela	141.02
161	Yemen	139.01
162	Rwanda	134.37
163	Burkina Faso	129.06
164	Guinea-Bissau	123.29
165	Comoros	123.18
166	Uganda	121.15
167	Djibouti	117.19
168	Solomon Islands	115.24
169	Malawi	114.82
170	Vanuatu	110.43
171	Liberia	104.67
172	Tanzania	104.31
173	Papua New Guinea	103.9
174	Togo	103.73
175	Bangladesh	94.3
176	Guinea	89.17
177	Chad	87.3
178	Madagascar	85.49
179	Benin	84.65
180	Mali	84.16
181	Niger	78.85
182	Ethiopia	66.66
183	Mozambique	61.78
184	Eritrea	59.27
185	Burundi	59.19
186	The Gambia	55.77
187	Central African Republic	41.99
188	DR Congo	37.33
–	World	1,408.76

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators and WHO, Global Health Expenditure Database