Latvia - 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 Latvia was 0.040 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.116 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.004 in 2008.

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
2000 0.042
2002 0.116
2003 0.084
2004 0.091
2005 0.023
2007 0.017
2008 0.004
2009 0.040

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 Latvia was 0.021 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.061 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.002 in 2008.

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
2000 0.022
2002 0.061
2003 0.044
2004 0.048
2005 0.012
2007 0.009
2008 0.002
2009 0.021

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 Latvia was 0.000 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 0.192 in 1997, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2005.

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
1997 0.192
2002 0.167
2003 0.147
2004 0.160
2005 0.000
2006 0.000
2007 0.000
2008 0.000
2009 0.062
2010 0.000
2011 0.000
2012 0.000
2013 0.000
2014 0.000
2015 0.000
2016 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 Latvia was 0.516 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.866 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.259 in 2007.

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
2000 0.319
2002 0.866
2003 0.729
2004 0.740
2005 0.283
2007 0.259
2008 0.277
2009 0.516

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 Latvia was 0.161 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.271 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.081 in 2007.

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
2000 0.100
2002 0.271
2003 0.228
2004 0.231
2005 0.089
2007 0.081
2008 0.087
2009 0.161

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 Latvia was 0.259 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 0.824 in 1997, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2007.

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
1997 0.824
2002 0.279
2003 0.306
2004 0.177
2005 0.675
2006 0.322
2007 0.000
2008 0.088
2009 0.161
2010 0.231
2011 0.153
2012 0.267
2013 0.150
2014 0.145
2015 0.267
2016 0.259

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 Latvia was 21.41 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 21.41 in 2016, while its lowest value was 9.19 in 2002.

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
1997 9.94
2002 9.19
2003 10.50
2004 12.08
2005 12.48
2006 10.91
2007 15.37
2008 15.10
2009 15.46
2010 17.18
2011 18.60
2012 17.77
2013 18.04
2014 18.84
2015 19.42
2016 21.41

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 Latvia was 5.70 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 5.70 in 2016, while its lowest value was 1.34 in 2002.

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
1997 1.78
2002 1.34
2003 1.65
2004 1.88
2005 2.28
2006 1.83
2007 3.34
2008 2.62
2009 3.50
2010 4.20
2011 4.86
2012 4.20
2013 4.32
2014 4.92
2015 5.19
2016 5.70

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Latvia was 72.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 72.00 in 2019 and 51.00 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 51.00
2005 56.00
2010 63.00
2015 66.00
2017 70.00
2019 72.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage