Saudi Arabia - Access to affordable health care

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
2013 1.73
2018 1.31

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
2013 0.600
2018 0.580

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Saudi Arabia was 73.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 73.00 in 2019 and 71.00 in 2015.

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 73.00
2005 73.00
2010 73.00
2015 71.00
2017 72.00
2019 73.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage