Thailand - 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 Thailand was 0.000 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.168 in 1994 and a minimum value of 0.000 in 2017.

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
1994 0.168
1996 0.092
1998 0.049
2002 0.016
2006 0.007
2009 0.001
2017 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 Thailand was 0.000 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.088 in 1994 and a minimum value of 0.000 in 2017.

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
1994 0.088
1996 0.048
1998 0.026
2002 0.008
2006 0.004
2009 0.000
2017 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 Thailand was 0.000 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 0.272 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2011.

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
1994 0.272
1996 0.237
1998 0.061
2000 0.267
2002 0.041
2004 0.064
2006 0.033
2007 0.002
2008 0.029
2009 0.007
2010 0.007
2011 0.000
2012 0.014
2013 0.000
2014 0.004
2015 0.000
2016 0.000
2017 0.000
2018 0.000
2019 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 Thailand was 0.00 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.23 in 1994 and a minimum value of 0.00 in 2017.

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
1994 1.23
1996 0.98
1998 0.65
2002 0.43
2006 0.15
2009 0.03
2017 0.00

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 Thailand was 0.001 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.385 in 1994 and a minimum value of 0.001 in 2017.

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
1994 0.385
1996 0.305
1998 0.203
2002 0.135
2006 0.047
2009 0.010
2017 0.001

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 Thailand was 0.00 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 1.43 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.00 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
1994 1.43
1996 1.26
1998 0.92
2000 1.18
2002 0.52
2004 0.47
2006 0.29
2007 0.19
2008 0.20
2009 0.16
2010 0.16
2011 0.06
2012 0.09
2013 0.09
2014 0.03
2015 0.03
2016 0.04
2017 0.00
2018 0.02
2019 0.00

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 Thailand was 1.87 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 6.67 in 1994, while its lowest value was 1.87 in 2019.

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
1994 6.67
1996 5.99
1998 5.17
2000 5.63
2002 3.98
2004 3.83
2006 3.59
2007 3.14
2008 2.97
2009 3.22
2010 2.77
2011 2.20
2012 2.52
2013 2.20
2014 2.14
2015 1.88
2016 1.99
2017 2.22
2018 2.04
2019 1.87

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 Thailand was 0.27 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 1.91 in 1996, while its lowest value was 0.27 in 2019.

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
1994 1.86
1996 1.91
1998 1.13
2000 0.93
2002 0.84
2004 0.77
2006 0.77
2007 0.71
2008 0.56
2009 0.60
2010 0.47
2011 0.38
2012 0.42
2013 0.40
2014 0.35
2015 0.36
2016 0.32
2017 0.41
2018 0.34
2019 0.27

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Thailand was 83.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 83.00 in 2019 and 41.00 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 41.00
2005 63.00
2010 70.00
2015 75.00
2017 80.00
2019 83.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage