How rather more costly is the U.S. healthcare system in comparison with different developed nations?

There are lots of methods of approaching that query, however when evaluating per-capita healthcare spending in numerous OECD nations, the reply is: much more costly.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz illustrates within the chart beneath, U.S. per-capita healthcare spending (together with private and non-private in addition to obligatory and voluntary spending) is larger than anyplace else on the earth, with second-placed Germany trailing fairly far behind.

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On common, healthcare prices within the U.S. amounted as much as $12,318 per individual in 2021. In Germany that quantity stood at $7,383 – 40 p.c decrease. But, the U.S. lags behind different nations in a number of facets comparable to life expectancy and medical health insurance protection.

Excessive prices for healthcare are the norm in German-speaking nations, the Netherlands and Scandinavian nations. Prices are a bit decrease – aroud $5,000 per capita, in France, Canada, the UK, Australia and Japan. Amongst developed nations, per-capita well being care prices have been the bottom in Japanese Europe.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare prices began to rise extra steeply in OECD nations. The chart due to this fact consists of solely 2021 numbers for higher comparability.