Singapore - 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 9.01

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 1.47

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Singapore was 86.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.00 in 2019 and 62.00 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 62.00
2005 68.00
2010 78.00
2015 84.00
2017 85.00
2019 86.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage