Estonia - 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 Estonia was 0.003 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.066 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.003 in 2007.

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
1995 0.018
2000 0.006
2001 0.015
2002 0.020
2003 0.032
2004 0.015
2005 0.066
2006 0.055
2007 0.003

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 Estonia was 0.002 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.035 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.002 in 2007.

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
1995 0.010
2000 0.003
2001 0.008
2002 0.010
2003 0.017
2004 0.008
2005 0.035
2006 0.029
2007 0.002

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 Estonia was 0.000 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 0.135 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2010.

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
1995 0.018
2000 0.017
2001 0.037
2002 0.033
2003 0.133
2004 0.041
2005 0.061
2006 0.135
2007 0.007
2010 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 Estonia was 0.275 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.471 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.221 in 2001.

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
1995 0.261
2000 0.222
2001 0.221
2002 0.242
2003 0.349
2004 0.273
2005 0.471
2006 0.332
2007 0.275

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 Estonia was 0.086 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.147 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.069 in 2001.

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
1995 0.082
2000 0.069
2001 0.069
2002 0.076
2003 0.109
2004 0.085
2005 0.147
2006 0.104
2007 0.086

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 Estonia was 0.077 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 0.618 in 2003, while its lowest value was 0.077 in 2010.

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
1995 0.181
2000 0.252
2001 0.247
2002 0.222
2003 0.618
2004 0.472
2005 0.306
2006 0.330
2007 0.199
2010 0.077

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 Estonia was 8.79 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 14.58 in 2006, while its lowest value was 3.01 in 1995.

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
1995 3.01
2000 6.63
2001 6.77
2002 7.15
2003 10.04
2004 11.57
2005 10.79
2006 14.58
2007 12.76
2010 8.79

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 Estonia was 1.19 as of 2010. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 3.05 in 2006, while its lowest value was 0.05 in 1995.

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
1995 0.05
2000 1.02
2001 1.20
2002 1.12
2003 1.54
2004 1.93
2005 1.83
2006 3.05
2007 2.66
2010 1.19

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Estonia was 78.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 78.00 in 2019 and 60.00 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 60.00
2005 61.00
2010 71.00
2015 75.00
2017 77.00
2019 78.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage