South Asia - 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 62,491,400
2005 59,897,660
2010 63,475,650
2015 69,559,820
2017 23,727,410

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 4.49
2005 3.94
2010 3.87
2015 3.98
2017 1.32

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 36,907,560
2005 51,586,890
2010 62,720,830
2015 82,114,210
2017 35,295,130

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 2.65
2005 3.40
2010 3.83
2015 4.69
2017 1.97

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 195,234,800
2005 206,897,200
2010 229,637,600
2015 284,954,900
2017 294,912,600

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 14.04
2005 13.62
2010 14.01
2015 16.29
2017 16.45

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 41,341,830
2005 46,561,800
2010 56,748,440
2015 92,449,220
2017 105,492,700

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 2.97
2005 3.07
2010 3.46
2015 5.28
2017 5.89

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in South Asia was 57.68 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 57.68 in 2019 and 29.40 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 29.40
2005 32.18
2010 45.25
2015 51.97
2017 54.10
2019 57.68

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage