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Out-of-pocket health expenditure share

Compare out-of-pocket health expenditure share across 22 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
17.5% of current health expenditure
Median: 14.6% of current health expenditure
Countries Covered
22
with available data
Highest
Chile
39.1% of current health expenditure
Lowest
Luxembourg
8.5% of current health expenditure
Top 5 Countries
1Chile39.1% of current health expenditure
2South Korea33.7% of current health expenditure
3Lithuania31.4% of current health expenditure
4Portugal28.2% of current health expenditure
5Italy22.3% of current health expenditure
By Region
Key Findings
  • 22 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2024 observation.
  • Chile has the highest published value (39.14786911 % of current health expenditure).
  • Luxembourg has the lowest published value (8.50457287 % of current health expenditure).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (8.5% of current health expenditure)High (39.1% of current health expenditure)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 17.5% of current health expenditure)

About This Statistic

Share of out-of-pocket payments of total current health expenditures. Out-of-pocket payments are spending on health directly out-of-pocket by households.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Share of out-of-pocket payments of total current health expenditures. Out-of-pocket payments are spending on health directly out-of-pocket by households.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Chile39.1% of current health expenditure
2South Korea33.7% of current health expenditure
3Lithuania31.4% of current health expenditure
4Portugal28.2% of current health expenditure
5Italy22.3% of current health expenditure
6Estonia21.4% of current health expenditure
7Austria16.5% of current health expenditure
8Poland16.2% of current health expenditure
9Canada15.3% of current health expenditure
10Iceland14.9% of current health expenditure
11Colombia14.7% of current health expenditure
12United Kingdom14.6% of current health expenditure
13Czech Republic14.1% of current health expenditure
14Denmark13.9% of current health expenditure
15Sweden13.4% of current health expenditure
16New Zealand12.7% of current health expenditure
17Netherlands11.8% of current health expenditure
18Slovenia11.7% of current health expenditure
19Germany10.7% of current health expenditure
20Ireland10.6% of current health expenditure
21France9.2% of current health expenditure
22Luxembourg8.5% of current health expenditure
Showing 22 of 22 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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