Peru - 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 Peru was 0.011 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.982 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.011 in 2018.

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
2000 0.982
2006 0.320
2007 0.245
2008 0.196
2009 0.165
2010 0.114
2011 0.102
2012 0.081
2013 0.057
2014 0.043
2015 0.029
2016 0.025
2017 0.026
2018 0.011

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 Peru was 0.006 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.517 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.006 in 2018.

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
2000 0.517
2006 0.168
2007 0.129
2008 0.103
2009 0.087
2010 0.060
2011 0.054
2012 0.043
2013 0.030
2014 0.023
2015 0.015
2016 0.013
2017 0.014
2018 0.006

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 Peru was 0.06 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 1.48 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.03 in 2018.

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 1.48
2006 0.70
2008 0.37
2009 0.38
2011 0.26
2012 0.29
2013 0.12
2014 0.11
2015 0.06
2016 0.08
2017 0.08
2018 0.03
2019 0.06

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 Peru was 0.21 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.74 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.21 in 2018.

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
2000 3.74
2006 1.60
2007 1.36
2008 1.16
2009 1.05
2010 0.83
2011 0.77
2012 0.67
2013 0.55
2014 0.45
2015 0.38
2016 0.34
2017 0.27
2018 0.21

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 Peru was 0.07 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.17 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.07 in 2018.

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
2000 1.17
2006 0.50
2007 0.43
2008 0.36
2009 0.33
2010 0.26
2011 0.24
2012 0.21
2013 0.17
2014 0.14
2015 0.12
2016 0.11
2017 0.08
2018 0.07

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 Peru was 0.32 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 2.23 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.32 in 2019.

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 2.23
2006 1.11
2008 1.17
2009 0.97
2011 0.89
2012 0.81
2013 0.77
2014 0.60
2015 0.51
2016 0.43
2017 0.37
2018 0.39
2019 0.32

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 Peru was 8.40 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 11.82 in 2000, while its lowest value was 7.98 in 2017.

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 11.82
2006 10.74
2008 11.57
2009 10.64
2011 11.25
2012 11.71
2013 10.49
2014 9.17
2015 8.27
2016 8.46
2017 7.98
2018 9.22
2019 8.40

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 Peru was 1.14 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 2.89 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.89 in 2017.

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 2.89
2006 1.34
2008 1.56
2009 1.35
2011 1.29
2012 1.48
2013 1.38
2014 1.25
2015 1.20
2016 1.02
2017 0.89
2018 1.28
2019 1.14

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Peru was 78.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 78.00 in 2019 and 40.00 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 40.00
2005 60.00
2010 72.00
2015 76.00
2017 77.00
2019 78.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage