North America - 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 | 4,311.00 |
| 2005 | 48.00 |
| 2010 | 36,359.00 |
| 2015 | 35,723.00 |
| 2017 | 36,562.00 |
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 | 0.001 |
| 2005 | 0.000 |
| 2010 | 0.011 |
| 2015 | 0.010 |
| 2017 | 0.010 |
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 | 30,733 |
| 2005 | 8,230 |
| 2010 | 8,363 |
| 2015 | 35,725 |
| 2017 | 40,919 |
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 | 0.010 |
| 2005 | 0.003 |
| 2010 | 0.002 |
| 2015 | 0.010 |
| 2017 | 0.011 |
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 | 17,749,620 |
| 2005 | 17,908,650 |
| 2010 | 15,994,760 |
| 2015 | 15,302,090 |
| 2017 | 15,854,590 |
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 | 5.68 |
| 2005 | 5.47 |
| 2010 | 4.66 |
| 2015 | 4.29 |
| 2017 | 4.38 |
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 | 3,158,064 |
| 2005 | 3,000,170 |
| 2010 | 2,636,679 |
| 2015 | 2,659,565 |
| 2017 | 2,479,127 |
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 | 1.01 |
| 2005 | 0.92 |
| 2010 | 0.77 |
| 2015 | 0.75 |
| 2017 | 0.69 |
UHC service coverage index
The latest value for UHC service coverage index in North America was 83.62 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 83.62 in 2019 and 76.00 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 | 76.00 |
| 2005 | 79.20 |
| 2010 | 80.40 |
| 2015 | 81.80 |
| 2017 | 82.71 |
| 2019 | 83.62 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage
