Care Abroad

a directory of treatment across bordersCare Abroad

Who goes where, what it costs, and who checked. Countries, clusters, hospitals, operations, prices as published, the law where the law is the reason, and the risks nobody quotes for. Every field says where it came from.

What it costsThe mapWhere it is lawfulFrom where you areThe journeyWhat goes wrong🎲 Anywhere
342
records
56
countries
244
published prices
each with its date
151
legality readings
35
hospitals written up
+17,508 off the map
2,861
links between pages

Current health expenditure per person

17 current US$13,473 current US$ 33 countries with no value
World Bank, each country at its own most recent reporting year. A hatched country is one the series does not carry. Other series, and this site's own coverage, are on the map page.
The 193 values behind this map

Each value is that country's most recent reporting year, which is why the years differ.

CountryISOcurrent US$Year
AfghanistanAF592023
AlbaniaAL5912023
AlgeriaDZ2332023
AndorraAD3,6052023
AngolaAO762023
Antigua and BarbudaAG8412023
ArgentinaAR1,4572023
ArmeniaAM7672023
AustraliaAU6,9802023
AustriaAT6,7392024
AzerbaijanAZ3002023
Bahamas, TheBS2,2622023
BahrainBH1,1762023
BangladeshBD532023
BarbadosBB1,2862023
BelarusBY5582023
BelgiumBE5,9312023
BelizeBZ3092023
BeninBJ472023
BhutanBT1622023
BoliviaBO2552023
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBA7732023
BotswanaBW4902023
BrazilBR1,0102023
Brunei DarussalamBN7332023
BulgariaBG1,2582023
Burkina FasoBF722023
BurundiBI282023
Cabo VerdeCV2902023
CambodiaKH1152023
CameroonCM792023
CanadaCA6,3782024
Central African RepublicCF542023
ChadTD472023
ChileCL1,7602024
ChinaCN7632023
ColombiaCO6442024
ComorosKM1022023
Congo, Dem. Rep.CD232023
Congo, Rep.CG762023
Costa RicaCR1,1632023
Cote d'IvoireCI882023
CroatiaHR1,5482023
CubaCU1,1992020
CyprusCY2,8992023
CzechiaCZ2,6932024
DenmarkDK6,7452024
DjiboutiDJ782023
DominicaDM4922023
Dominican RepublicDO4892023
EcuadorEC5092023
Egypt, Arab Rep.EG1412023
El SalvadorSV5012023
Equatorial GuineaGQ2342023
EritreaER282023
EstoniaEE2,4382024
EswatiniSZ2962023
EthiopiaET352023
FijiFJ2132023
FinlandFI5,5152023
FranceFR5,3272024
GabonGA2532023
Gambia, TheGM262023
GeorgiaGE5542023
GermanyDE6,8492024
GhanaGH702023
GreeceGR1,9632023
GrenadaGD5262023
GuatemalaGT3922023
GuineaGN592023
Guinea-BissauGW822023
GuyanaGY5052023
HaitiHT542023
HondurasHN2492023
HungaryHU1,4202023
IcelandIS7,6422024
IndiaIN852023
IndonesiaID1322023
Iran, Islamic Rep.IR2672023
IraqIQ3332023
IrelandIE7,3952024
IsraelIL3,9282023
ItalyIT3,3982024
JamaicaJM5202023
JapanJP3,6382023
JordanJO3422023
KazakhstanKZ4902023
KenyaKE852023
KiribatiKI2382023
Korea, Rep.KR3,1372024
KuwaitKW1,6792023
Kyrgyz RepublicKG972023
Lao PDRLA272023
LatviaLV1,6452023
LebanonLB2612023
LesothoLS1232023
LiberiaLR1042023
LibyaLY4702023
LiechtensteinLI11,4952023
LithuaniaLT2,2322024
LuxembourgLU8,1702024
MadagascarMG172023
MalawiMW412023
MalaysiaMY4502023
MaldivesMV1,1592023
MaliML342023
MaltaMT3,6232023
Marshall IslandsMH8942023
MauritaniaMR922023
MauritiusMU6162023
MexicoMX7612023
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.FM5082023
MoldovaMD4522023
MonacoMC8,0042023
MongoliaMN3602023
MontenegroME1,1482023
MoroccoMA2322023
MozambiqueMZ532023
MyanmarMM562023
NamibiaNA3972023
NaoeroNR2,2922023
NepalNP842023
NetherlandsNL6,8452024
New ZealandNZ5,0222024
NicaraguaNI2172023
NigerNE262023
NigeriaNG672023
North MacedoniaMK6392023
NorwayNO8,2962023
OmanOM7322023
PakistanPK302023
PalauPW1,6842023
PanamaPA1,5582023
Papua New GuineaPG852023
ParaguayPY5272023
PeruPE4462023
PhilippinesPH1942023
PolandPL2,0142024
PortugalPT2,9712024
QatarQA1,8042023
RomaniaRO1,0512023
Russian FederationRU1,0032023
RwandaRW532023
SamoaWS2932023
San MarinoSM3,9242023
Sao Tome and PrincipeST1712023
Saudi ArabiaSA1,8252023
SenegalSN732023
SerbiaRS9842023
SeychellesSC7662023
Sierra LeoneSL362023
SingaporeSG3,9222023
Slovak RepublicSK1,8132023
SloveniaSI3,3712024
Solomon IslandsSB1112023
Somalia, Fed. Rep.SO222023
South AfricaZA5372023
South SudanSS732023
SpainES3,1072023
Sri LankaLK1342023
St. Kitts and NevisKN1,2952023
St. LuciaLC6412023
St. Vincent and the GrenadinesVC4692023
SudanSD212023
SurinameSR2972023
SwedenSE6,4852024
SwitzerlandCH11,7842023
Syrian Arab RepublicSY332023
TajikistanTJ852023
TanzaniaTZ362023
ThailandTH3272023
Timor-LesteTL1442023
TogoTG602023
TongaTO3582023
Trinidad and TobagoTT1,2762023
TunisiaTN3182023
TurkiyeTR5482023
TurkmenistanTM5812023
TuvaluTV1,7242023
UgandaUG452023
UkraineUA3702021
United Arab EmiratesAE2,4022023
United KingdomGB5,8602024
United StatesUS13,4732023
UruguayUY2,0762023
UzbekistanUZ1922023
VanuatuVU1432023
Venezuela, RBVE1862023
Viet NamVN1972023
West Bank and GazaPS3462023
Yemen, Rep.YE482023
ZambiaZM802023
ZimbabweZW632023

Two reasons people fly

One is money: the operation costs less somewhere else, or the queue at home is fourteen months long. The other is law: the treatment is prohibited at home and lawful across a border. The prices page is the first. The rules grid is the second.

The number under the number

A joint package priced at 356,500 baht excludes the implant, and the implant is often the largest line on the bill. Every price here carries the provider's own exclusion list, because that is where the difference between two quotes usually lives.

Lately read

Defiant

3,500 USD ≈ US$3,500 · Abdominoplasty · dated 2026-09-17

Abortion

0 USD · Abortion · dated 2026-09-17

Abortion

622 GBP ≈ US$838 · Abortion · dated 2026-09-17

Abortion

1,166 GBP ≈ US$1,571 · Abortion · dated 2026-09-17

All-on-4

4,171 EUR ≈ US$4,812 · All-on-4 · dated 2026-09-17

All-on-4

8,110 USD ≈ US$8,110 · All-on-4 · dated 2026-09-17

All-on-4

290,000 THB ≈ US$8,710 · All-on-4 · dated 2026-09-17

Coronary angioplasty and stent

2,122 AUD ≈ US$1,512 · Coronary angioplasty and stent · dated 2026-09-17

Countries (53)

Where people fly for treatment, what each country sells, and who counts the arrivals.

Cities (41)

The clusters: a street of dental surgeries, a hospital district, a corridor of hair clinics.

Procedures (58)

The operations people cross borders for, what each one involves, and what it costs where.

Hospitals and clinics (35)

Named institutions with an international patient department, their beds, their accreditations, their published prices.

The journey (17)

Records, quotes, deposits, visas, interpreters, the flight home, the follow-up nobody booked.

Risks (23)

What goes wrong, how often anybody measures it, and who carries the cost when it does.

Rules (23)

Visas, licensing regimes, entitlements, reimbursement, and the things a country will not do for a visitor.

Organizations (28)

Accreditors, ministries, trade bodies, registries, the societies that write the standards.

People (6)

Surgeons, founders, regulators, researchers, patients who wrote it down.

Events (8)

The conferences, the rulings, the outbreaks, the years the field turned.

Words (26)

Package price, facilitator, day case, DRG, graft, cycle, tariff — with roots.

The data (13)

Every series this site draws a chart from, what it counts, and the sentence about what it does not count.

Stories (11)

Longer pieces: whether it is cheaper, who really travels, what the numbers cannot see.

Plain prose is cited. Trade practice — means this is how the trade works, hedged; Inference — means this project worked it out. It is all JSON as well, and the gaps are listed at coverage.

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