Hungary - 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 Hungary was 0.000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.009 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.000 in 2000.

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
1998 0.009
1999 0.009
2000 0.000
2001 0.000
2002 0.000
2003 0.000
2004 0.000
2005 0.000
2006 0.000
2007 0.000
2010 0.000

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 Hungary was 0.000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.005 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.000 in 2000.

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
1998 0.005
1999 0.005
2000 0.000
2001 0.000
2002 0.000
2003 0.000
2004 0.000
2005 0.000
2006 0.000
2007 0.000
2010 0.000

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 Hungary was 0.000 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 0.011 in 1999, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 1993.

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
1993 0.000
1998 0.005
1999 0.011
2000 0.000
2001 0.000
2002 0.000
2003 0.000
2004 0.000
2005 0.000
2006 0.000
2007 0.000
2010 0.000

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 Hungary was 0.019 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.057 in 2007 and a minimum value of 0.004 in 2002.

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
1998 0.041
1999 0.036
2000 0.038
2001 0.014
2002 0.004
2003 0.034
2004 0.046
2005 0.032
2006 0.014
2007 0.057
2010 0.019

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 Hungary was 0.006 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.018 in 2007 and a minimum value of 0.001 in 2002.

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
1998 0.013
1999 0.011
2000 0.012
2001 0.004
2002 0.001
2003 0.011
2004 0.014
2005 0.010
2006 0.004
2007 0.018
2010 0.006

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 Hungary was 0.029 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 0.120 in 1993, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2002.

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
1993 0.120
1998 0.032
1999 0.043
2000 0.109
2001 0.076
2002 0.000
2003 0.075
2004 0.021
2005 0.057
2006 0.027
2007 0.066
2010 0.029

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 Hungary was 7.38 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 12.37 in 2003, while its lowest value was 4.55 in 1993.

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
1993 4.55
1998 6.03
1999 6.96
2000 8.26
2001 8.34
2002 9.70
2003 12.37
2004 10.27
2005 10.62
2006 10.09
2007 11.54
2010 7.38

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 Hungary was 0.31 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 1.26 in 2003, while its lowest value was 0.11 in 1993.

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
1993 0.11
1998 0.73
1999 0.67
2000 0.78
2001 0.58
2002 0.75
2003 1.26
2004 0.90
2005 0.76
2006 0.59
2007 0.98
2010 0.31

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Hungary was 73.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 73.00 in 2019 and 67.00 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 67.00
2005 67.00
2010 67.00
2015 70.00
2017 71.00
2019 73.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage