High income - Access to affordable health care

Number of people pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure

Definition: Number of people pushed below the $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the number of 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
2000 873,092
2005 1,401,429
2010 826,929
2015 566,014
2017 560,100

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

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
2000 0.099
2005 0.142
2010 0.075
2015 0.049
2017 0.046

Number of people pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure

Definition: Number of people pushed below the $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line by out-of-pocket health care expenditure. This indicator shows the number of 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
2000 804,403
2005 2,245,614
2010 1,435,093
2015 1,420,507
2017 1,524,690

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

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
2000 0.091
2005 0.227
2010 0.130
2015 0.122
2017 0.125

Number of people spending more than 10% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure

Definition: Number of people 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
2000 60,127,860
2005 66,918,040
2010 72,231,540
2015 79,417,570
2017 84,589,290

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

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
2000 14.88
2005 15.06
2010 14.17
2015 15.36
2017 15.80

Number of people spending more than 25% of household consumption or income on out-of-pocket health care expenditure

Definition: Number of people 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
2000 10,503,200
2005 10,729,620
2010 11,330,640
2015 12,385,000
2017 13,331,250

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

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
2000 2.60
2005 2.41
2010 2.22
2015 2.40
2017 2.49

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in High income was 83.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 83.00 in 2019 and 74.00 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 74.00
2005 78.00
2010 80.00
2015 82.00
2017 82.00
2019 83.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage