Norway, Germany, and Sweden are also within the top five countries with the highest per capita health expenditure. The United States also spent the highest share of it’s gross domestic product on health care, with around 17 percent of its GDP spent on health care services.
Health Expenditure in the U.S. The United States is the highest spending country worldwide when it comes to health care. In 2020, total health expenditure in the U.S. exceeded four trillion dollars. Expenditure as a percentage of GDP is projected to increase to 19 percent by the year 2025.
Health expenditure in the United States is spread out across multiple categories such as nursing home facilities, home health care, and prescription drugs. As of 2019, the majority of health expenditure in the United States was spent on hospital care, accounting for roughly one third of all health spending. Hospital care was followed by spending on physician and clinical services which accounted for 20 percent of overall health expenditure.
China, Turkey, India, Indonesia and Russia are not OECD countries.
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A country list from World Health Organization 's Global Health Expenditure Database.