Guatemala Domestic general government health expenditure per capita (current US$)

Guatemala Domestic general government health expenditure per capita (current US$): Key Points

• Two numbers frame this chart: 82.56 current US$ for Guatemala's domestic general government health expenditure per capita in 2014, 140.39 current US$ in 2023. That gap works out to a 70% rise.
• 2015-2017: builds to 95.12 current US$ (+15%).
• 2018: barely budges, 95.72 current US$.
• 2019-2021: spikes to 130.83 current US$ (+37%).
• 2023: rises to 140.39 current US$ (+6%).
• 2023: Series wraps up at 140.39 current US$, a net 70.0% gain across the whole run.

What's Behind The Steady Rise

A trend this clean, held for 10 years, is the exception rather than the rule in most national indicator data — worth treating as a real, durable pattern rather than noise.

Don't skip past the 2021 outlier. A jump or drop of 18% in a single year is either a real, notable event or a break in how the underlying data was collected — both are worth knowing before you use this number.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Guatemala specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.

Per-capita figures are convenient for comparing across countries of different sizes, but they obscure the raw total. If scale matters to your question, look up the non-per-capita version of this indicator.