Private Healthcare Costs Are Rewriting the Map for Migrating Millionaires, New Data Shows
Private Healthcare Costs Are Rewriting the Map for Migrating Millionaires, New Data Shows Leave a reply LONDON, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A sharp acceleration in global wealth migration in 2025 is colliding with rapidly diverging private healthcare costs worldwide, making the availability and costs of reliable private care a decisive factor in where high-net-worth families choose to live, invest, and secure residence or citizenship rights. New client data released today by global leaders in citizenship and residence planning, Henley & Partners, confirms record demand for cross-border planning and highlights healthcare cost exposure as a critical “hidden variable” shaping long-term destination decisions for globally mobile families. Record Global Demand is Reshaping Priorities Henley & Partners has received applications from 92 nationalities this year (2025) and supported demand across 50+ residence and citizenship programs. Over the past five years, the firm has assisted applicants from 136 nationalities, underscoring the scale and diversity of today’s wealth-migration movement. Comparing the first three quarters of 2024 with the same period in 2025, the firm has seen a 43% increase in applications — a clear signal of intensifying cross-border mobility among affluent families. “Global mobility is becoming a core risk-management strategy for wealthy families,” according to Dr. Christian H. Kaelin, Chairman of Henley & Partners. “As clients build lives across multiple jurisdictions, they are scrutinizing not only access to residence and citizenship, but also the real cost of sustaining that lifestyle — especially the price of reliable private healthcare. Destinations that look attractive on paper can become far less so once true healthcare exposure is understood.” New Evidence Turns Healthcare Costs into a Core Mobility Metric To support clients’ destination decisions, Henley & Partners is referencing the newly published SIP Health Cost Index (HCI) 2025 — a systematic benchmark of the true cost of private healthcare for internationally mobile individuals and families