Iran - 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 Iran was 0.009 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.106 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.004 in 2012.

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
2005 0.106
2006 0.086
2007 0.054
2008 0.036
2009 0.052
2010 0.028
2011 0.010
2012 0.004
2013 0.009

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 Iran was 0.005 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.056 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.002 in 2012.

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
2005 0.056
2006 0.045
2007 0.028
2008 0.019
2009 0.027
2010 0.015
2011 0.005
2012 0.002
2013 0.005

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 Iran was 0.126 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 0.129 in 2009, while its lowest value was 0.016 in 2013.

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
2007 0.117
2008 0.102
2009 0.129
2010 0.093
2011 0.029
2012 0.036
2013 0.016
2014 0.099
2015 0.079
2016 0.023
2017 0.047
2018 0.044
2019 0.126

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 Iran was 0.097 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.837 in 2006 and a minimum value of 0.096 in 2012.

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
2005 0.818
2006 0.837
2007 0.498
2008 0.348
2009 0.448
2010 0.276
2011 0.124
2012 0.096
2013 0.097

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 Iran was 0.030 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 8 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.261 in 2006 and a minimum value of 0.030 in 2012.

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
2005 0.256
2006 0.261
2007 0.156
2008 0.109
2009 0.140
2010 0.086
2011 0.039
2012 0.030
2013 0.030

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 Iran was 0.722 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 0.722 in 2019, while its lowest value was 0.212 in 2012.

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
2007 0.617
2008 0.495
2009 0.519
2010 0.428
2011 0.392
2012 0.212
2013 0.334
2014 0.484
2015 0.459
2016 0.422
2017 0.414
2018 0.550
2019 0.722

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 Iran was 15.35 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 17.03 in 2015, while its lowest value was 11.31 in 2005.

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
2005 11.31
2007 11.41
2008 12.60
2009 13.72
2010 13.72
2011 14.12
2012 13.87
2013 15.81
2014 15.96
2015 17.03
2016 15.78
2017 16.86
2018 17.00
2019 15.35

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 Iran was 3.46 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 3.89 in 2015, while its lowest value was 2.92 in 2005.

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
2005 2.92
2007 2.94
2008 3.48
2009 3.58
2010 3.69
2011 3.07
2012 3.22
2013 3.76
2014 3.79
2015 3.89
2016 3.80
2017 3.70
2018 3.70
2019 3.46

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Iran was 77.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 77.00 in 2019 and 37.00 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 37.00
2005 49.00
2010 57.00
2015 69.00
2017 74.00
2019 77.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage