Health, country by country.

Compare

Three things the figures show, side by side.

• 442×

  as much is spent on health for each person where most is spent as where least is.

  Most: United States, $13,473 a person a year. Least: Pakistan, $30.

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• 2

  countries make care free to use for everyone, by law, when they need it.

  Canada and Sri Lanka. Elsewhere a covered person pays some of the bill.

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• 18.5

  years lie between the longest lives and the shortest, on average.

  Longest: Japan, 84.5 years. Shortest: Pakistan, 66.0.

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Estimated. World Health Organization, health accounts, 2023; years lived: World Health Organization, 2021; free care: each country’s own law, as its health-care page cites it.

• Canada ›

  81.6 years lived

  Spent a person $6,187

  Paid by people $15 of every $100 spent on health

• Finland ›

  81.5 years lived

  Spent a person $5,515

  Paid by people $14 of every $100 spent on health

• Germany ›

  80.5 years lived

  Spent a person $6,395

  Paid by people $11 of every $100 spent on health

• Japan ›

  84.5 years lived

  Spent a person $3,638

  Paid by people $12 of every $100 spent on health

• Norway ›

  82.9 years lived

  Spent a person $8,296

  Paid by people $14 of every $100 spent on health

• Pakistan ›

  66.0 years lived

  Spent a person $30

  Paid by people $53 of every $100 spent on health

• South Korea ›

  83.8 years lived

  Spent a person $3,044

  Paid by people $32 of every $100 spent on health

• Sri Lanka ›

  77.2 years lived

  Spent a person $134

  Paid by people $55 of every $100 spent on health

• Switzerland ›

  83.3 years lived

  Spent a person $11,784

  Paid by people $22 of every $100 spent on health

• United States ›

  76.4 years lived

  Spent a person $13,473

  Paid by people $11 of every $100 spent on health

Estimated. Years lived: World Health Organization, 2021; money: WHO health accounts, 2023; care covered: WHO, 2023. Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m.

This week

The biggest change in the weekly reports of Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

“Usual” is the same four weeks averaged over the two years before.

What’s new on Dooram

• Health systems compared23 October 2026
• How Pakistan’s health care works21 October 2026
• South Korea on Dooram20 October 2026

Why trust these numbers

• Every figure from the body named beside it. With its year; estimates are marked Estimated.
• Every figure read twice. By a second route, before it is shown.

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