The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued the 2025 edition of its Health Statistics – a comprehensive source for international comparisons of health and health systems across OECD and partner countries. These data help policymakers, researchers, journalists, and citizens carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.
The available datasets cover:
- Health expenditure and financing, comprising revenues of healthcare financing schemes, input costs for healthcare providers, and gross fixed capital formation in the healthcare system, among other indicators;
- Health status, incorporating indicator sets on mortality and morbidity;
- Risk factors for health, with indicators on tobacco consumption, use of vaping products, alcohol consumption, food supply and consumption, and overweight and obese population;
- Healthcare human resources, including indicators on total health and social employment, physicians, midwives, nurses, caring personnel, dentists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, hospital employment, graduates, and remuneration of healthcare professionals;
- Healthcare provider resources, with indicators on hospitals, hospital beds, and medical technology; and
- Healthcare utilization, covering, among other indicators, consultations, immunization, screening survey and programme data, hospital aggregates, diagnostic exams, surgical procedures, and waiting times for selected elective surgeries.
Datasets are also available for healthcare quality and outcomes, the pharmaceutical market, long-term care; healthcare coverage; and subnational health indicators. New indicators include sickness absences of full-time dependent employees and nurses by age group and by sex.
OECD Health Statistics 2025, last updated on 8 July 2025, is available on OECD Data Explorer.
The new edition came out in advance of the 2025 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convening in New York, US, from 14-23 July. SDG 3 (good health and well-being) is among the five Goals undergoing in-depth review at HLPF 2025. The other four SDGs under review are SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG 14 (life below water), and SDG 17 (partnerships for the Goals).
As the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025, prepared by the UN Statistics Division, highlights, timely and disaggregated data are essential for monitoring progress, targeting interventions, and ensuring accountability. [Publication: OECD Health Statistics 2025: Definitions, Sources and Methods] [OECD Health Statistics]