Portugal Domestic private health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $)

Portugal Domestic private health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $): Key Points

• The 2023 figure for Portugal's domestic private health expenditure per capita, PPP is 1.80K Current international $. Back in 2014 it was 1.02K Current international $ — a rise of about 76% across the years in between.
• 2015-2019: spikes to 1.40K Current international $ (+37%).
• 2020: drops to 1.34K Current international $ (-4%).
• 2021-2022: shoots up to 1.77K Current international $ (+32%).
• 2023: holds around 1.80K Current international $.
• 2023: Closes higher than it opened — 1.80K Current international $, a 76.3% gain over the period.

Why This Doesn't Move In One Direction

Resist the instinct to draw a straight line through this. The path bends both directions, and the next year could plausibly go either way.

A 21% move in 2021 alone is doing a lot of the work in this chart's overall story. Understand that one year and you understand most of what is driving the whole series.

Read this as one data point in a bigger comparison, not a verdict on its own. Portugal's domestic private health expenditure per capita, PPP figure only tells a real story once it's set next to comparable countries or regions tracking the same thing.

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.

A per-capita series like this blends two moving parts — the total, and the population it is divided by. Movement here does not guarantee the same movement in the underlying total.