Spending on health per capita South Korea 2008-2018

In 2018, South Koreans spent approximately 3.2 thousand U.S. dollars per capita on health. Health spending is defined by the OECD as the cost of health care goods and services. In the preceding year, Koreans spent an average of 2.9 thousand U.S. dollars and and the increase from 2018 to 2019 was around eleven percent. The health spending of South Koreans was less than the OECD average of almost four thousand dollars in 2018, and between the spending of Spanish (around 3.3 thousand U.S. dollars) and Czech people (around 3.1 thousand U.S. dollars).