Data · Education & health
Current health expenditure per capita (current US$): Vietnam, 2000–2023
- Latest (2023)
- 197 USD per person
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year.
What the series shows
The series runs from 2000 to 2023 (24 years of data). It moved from 21 to 197 USD per person, a change of 835.8%. The highest value was 197 in 2023 and the lowest 21 in 2000. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (USD per person) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 197 |
| 2022 | 188 |
| 2021 | 168 |
| 2020 | 153 |
| 2019 | 171 |
| 2018 | 162 |
| 2017 | 148 |
| 2016 | 133 |
| 2015 | 121 |
| 2014 | 119 |
| 2013 | 104 |
| 2012 | 109 |
| 2011 | 97 |
| 2010 | 85 |
| 2009 | 70 |
| 2008 | 64 |
| 2007 | 54 |
| 2006 | 47 |
| 2005 | 39 |
| 2004 | 32 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2001 | 26 |
| 2000 | 21 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2023 | 197 |
| Thailand | 2023 | 327 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 132 |
| Malaysia | 2023 | 450 |
| Philippines | 2023 | 194 |
| Singapore | 2023 | 3,922 |
| Cambodia | 2023 | 115 |
| Laos | 2023 | 27 |
| Myanmar | 2023 | 56 |
| China | 2023 | 763 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Current health expenditure per capita (current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sh_xpd_chex_pc_cd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.