List of countries by health insurance coverage

A list of countries by health insurance coverage. The table lists the percentage of the total population covered by total public and primary private health insurance, by government/social health insurance, and by primary private health insurance, including 34 members of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries.

Percentage of total population covered by (OECD data from 2016)

Rank Country Total public and primary private health insurance Government / social health insurance Primary private health insurance 1 Australia 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Canada 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Czech Republic 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Denmark 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Finland 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Greece 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Hungary 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Iceland 100.0 99.5 0.5 1 Ireland 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Israel 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Italy 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Japan 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 South Korea 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 New Zealand 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Norway 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Portugal 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Slovenia 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 South Africa 100.0 84.0 16.0 1 Sweden 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 Switzerland 100.0 100.0 0.0 1 United Kingdom 100.0 100.0 0.0 22 Austria 99.9 99.9 0.0 22 France 99.9 99.9 0.0 22 Germany 99.9 89.3 10.7 22 Netherlands 99.9 99.9 0.0 22 Spain 99.9 99.9 0.0 27 Turkey 99.5 99.5 0.0 28 Belgium 99.0 99.0 0.0 29 India 98.4 90.6 7.8 30 Luxembourg 97.2 97.2 0.0 31 Slovakia 94.5 94.5 0.0 32 Chile 94.3 74.4 19.0 33 Estonia 94.1 94.1 0.0 34 Poland 91.5 91.5 0.0 35 United States 91.2 36.3 54.9 36 Mexico 90.2 90.2 0.0 37 Algeria 90.0 90.0 0.0 38 Jordan 55.0 43.8 11.1 39 Paraguay 27.0 20.0 7.0 Charts See also: Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country and List of countries by total health expenditure per capita Expand the charts to see the breakdown: "Government/compulsory": Government spending and compulsory health insurance. "Voluntary": Voluntary health insurance and private funds such as households’ out-of-pocket payments, NGOs and private corporations. They are represented by columns starting at zero. They are not stacked. The 2 are combined to get the total. At the source you can run your cursor over the columns to get the year and the total for that country. Click the table tab at the source to get 3 lists (one after another) of amounts by country: "Total", "Government/compulsory", and "Voluntary". Health spending by country. Percent of GDP (Gross domestic product). For example: 11.2% for Canada in 2022. 16.6% for the United States in 2022. Total healthcare cost per person. Public and private spending. US dollars PPP. For example: $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US average of $10,447 in 2018. References