Armenia - Access to affordable health care

Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD) in Armenia was 0.18 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.42 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.01 in 2009.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, expressed in US dollars (2011 PPP). The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 1.42
2001 1.29
2002 0.87
2003 0.53
2004 0.34
2005 0.14
2006 0.30
2007 0.10
2008 0.02
2009 0.01
2010 0.16
2011 0.20
2012 0.12
2013 0.18

Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line) in Armenia was 0.097 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.750 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.006 in 2009.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, as a percentage of the $1.90 poverty line. The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 0.750
2001 0.677
2002 0.457
2003 0.282
2004 0.180
2005 0.072
2006 0.156
2007 0.051
2008 0.012
2009 0.006
2010 0.085
2011 0.105
2012 0.062
2013 0.097

Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Armenia was 0.22 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 2.07 in 1999, while its lowest value was 0.10 in 2008.

Definition: Proportion of population pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the fraction of a country's households experiencing impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household would have been above the $ 1.90 poverty line, but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 2.07
2001 2.04
2002 1.40
2003 0.98
2004 0.56
2005 0.30
2006 0.51
2007 0.28
2008 0.10
2009 0.20
2010 0.61
2011 0.28
2012 0.18
2013 0.15
2014 0.42
2015 0.27
2016 0.44
2017 0.22

Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD) in Armenia was 2.08 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6.54 in 2001 and a minimum value of 0.37 in 2008.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, expressed in US dollars (2011 PPP). The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 6.44
2001 6.54
2002 4.61
2003 3.67
2004 2.98
2005 1.59
2006 1.72
2007 0.66
2008 0.37
2009 0.58
2010 1.26
2011 2.22
2012 1.96
2013 2.08

Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)

The value for Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line) in Armenia was 0.65 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.04 in 2001 and a minimum value of 0.11 in 2008.

Definition: Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure, as a percentage of the $3.20 poverty line. The poverty gap increase due to out-of-pocket health spending is one way to measure how much out-of-pocket health spending pushes people below or further below the poverty line (the difference in the poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending being included or excluded from the measure of household welfare). This difference corresponds to the total out-of-pocket health spending for households that are already below the poverty line, to the amount that exceeds the shortfall between the poverty line and total consumption for households that are impoverished by out-of-pocket health spending and to zero for households whose consumption is above the poverty line after accounting for out-of-pocket health spending.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 2.01
2001 2.04
2002 1.44
2003 1.15
2004 0.93
2005 0.50
2006 0.54
2007 0.21
2008 0.11
2009 0.18
2010 0.39
2011 0.69
2012 0.61
2013 0.65

Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Armenia was 2.43 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 4.80 in 1999, while its lowest value was 0.78 in 2008.

Definition: Proportion of population pushed below the $3.20 ($2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the fraction of a country's households experiencing impoverishing expenditures, defined as expenditures without which the household would have been above the $3.20 poverty line, but because of the expenditures is below the poverty line.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 4.80
2001 4.75
2002 3.36
2003 3.30
2004 2.51
2005 1.76
2006 1.57
2007 0.92
2008 0.78
2009 1.60
2010 2.86
2011 2.01
2012 2.06
2013 2.04
2014 2.71
2015 1.96
2016 2.46
2017 2.43

Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Armenia was 20.98 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 22.43 in 2015, while its lowest value was 8.26 in 2008.

Definition: Proportion of population spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 15.35
2001 11.99
2002 11.47
2003 10.61
2004 16.46
2005 12.04
2006 10.83
2007 8.30
2008 8.26
2009 9.74
2010 17.52
2011 12.80
2012 13.90
2013 16.05
2014 19.47
2015 22.43
2016 19.29
2017 20.98

Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%)

Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure (%) in Armenia was 7.09 as of 2017. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 7.58 in 2015, while its lowest value was 3.32 in 2011.

Definition: Proportion of population spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure.

Source: World Health Organization and World Bank. 2019. Global Monitoring Report on Financial Protection in Health 2019.

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Year Value
1999 6.88
2001 5.92
2002 5.96
2003 5.57
2004 7.50
2005 6.18
2006 5.91
2007 4.06
2008 3.53
2009 3.68
2010 5.35
2011 3.32
2012 4.48
2013 4.87
2014 6.03
2015 7.58
2016 5.75
2017 7.09

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Armenia was 69.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 69.00 in 2019 and 46.00 in 2000.

Definition: Coverage index for essential health services (based on tracer interventions that include reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, infectious diseases, noncommunicable diseases and service capacity and access). It is presented on a scale of 0 to 100.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (https://www.who.int/data/gho).

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Year Value
2000 46.00
2005 46.00
2010 57.00
2015 65.00
2017 68.00
2019 69.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage