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
- •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
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 ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chile | 39.1% of current health expenditure |
| 2 | South Korea | 33.7% of current health expenditure |
| 3 | Lithuania | 31.4% of current health expenditure |
| 4 | Portugal | 28.2% of current health expenditure |
| 5 | Italy | 22.3% of current health expenditure |
| 6 | Estonia | 21.4% of current health expenditure |
| 7 | Austria | 16.5% of current health expenditure |
| 8 | Poland | 16.2% of current health expenditure |
| 9 | Canada | 15.3% of current health expenditure |
| 10 | Iceland | 14.9% of current health expenditure |
| 11 | Colombia | 14.7% of current health expenditure |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 14.6% of current health expenditure |
| 13 | Czech Republic | 14.1% of current health expenditure |
| 14 | Denmark | 13.9% of current health expenditure |
| 15 | Sweden | 13.4% of current health expenditure |
| 16 | New Zealand | 12.7% of current health expenditure |
| 17 | Netherlands | 11.8% of current health expenditure |
| 18 | Slovenia | 11.7% of current health expenditure |
| 19 | Germany | 10.7% of current health expenditure |
| 20 | Ireland | 10.6% of current health expenditure |
| 21 | France | 9.2% of current health expenditure |
| 22 | Luxembourg | 8.5% of current health expenditure |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).
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