Low 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 88,732,350
2005 79,816,240
2010 13,655,940
2015 8,521,272
2017 7,367,320

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 3.58
2005 3.34
2010 1.71
2015 1.36
2017 1.03

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 57,743,450
2005 69,724,320
2010 14,268,150
2015 8,257,872
2017 7,646,480

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 2.33
2005 2.92
2010 1.79
2015 1.32
2017 1.07

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 275,433,500
2005 297,561,900
2010 61,533,010
2015 44,655,680
2017 54,595,160

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 11.21
2005 12.60
2010 7.94
2015 7.09
2017 7.60

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 65,900,320
2005 72,647,020
2010 15,041,460
2015 9,711,302
2017 11,121,610

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 2.68
2005 3.08
2010 1.94
2015 1.54
2017 1.55

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Low income was 42.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 42.00 in 2019 and 28.00 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 28.00
2005 32.00
2010 37.00
2015 38.00
2017 42.00
2019 42.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage