The table gives information on how spending in the health sector is allocated per capita across five countries: Australia, Germany, United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom in 2019.
Overall, the United States has the highest health expenditure while the United Kingdom has the lowest spending on health in 2019.
To start with, the United States allocated a total of 11,073 US dollars per capita on healthcare services, which is almost twice the expenditure of the second highest-spending country – Germany – at 6,646 US dollars. Next in ranking was Australia with an average of 5,187 US dollars used on health per capita, merely 1,500 US dollars less than Germany and significantly 6,000 dollars less than the United States.
Meanwhile, Japan and the United Kingdom tied at the bottom with relatively similar amounts of money spent of 4,823 and 4,652 US dollars, respectively. Moreover, these figures were approximately a third of that of America and two-thirds of that of Germany.