El Salvador - Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)

Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk) in El Salvador was 7.10 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 17 years was 23.50 in 2003, while its lowest value was 7.10 in 2020.

Definition: The proportion of population at risk of impoverishing expenditure when surgical care is required. Impoverishing expenditure is defined as direct out of pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care which drive people below a poverty threshold (using a threshold of $1.25 PPP/day).

Source: The Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School (https://www.pgssc.org/)

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Year Value
2003 23.50
2004 20.20
2005 20.00
2006 16.00
2007 14.80
2008 16.50
2009 16.40
2010 14.10
2011 12.70
2012 12.10
2013 12.40
2014 11.10
2015 9.70
2016 8.50
2017 7.30
2018 7.60
2019 7.40
2020 7.10

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors