North Macedonia - 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 North Macedonia was 0.092 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.398 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.043 in 2003.

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
1996 0.056
1997 0.122
1998 0.073
1999 0.070
2000 0.398
2002 0.080
2003 0.043
2004 0.084
2005 0.059
2006 0.220
2008 0.092

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 North Macedonia was 0.049 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.210 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.023 in 2003.

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
1996 0.030
1997 0.064
1998 0.038
1999 0.037
2000 0.210
2002 0.042
2003 0.023
2004 0.044
2005 0.031
2006 0.116
2008 0.049

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 North Macedonia was 0.159 as of 2006. Its highest value over the past 10 years was 0.998 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 1996.

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
1996 0.000
1997 0.607
1998 0.000
1999 0.221
2000 0.998
2002 0.137
2003 0.110
2004 0.137
2005 0.217
2006 0.159

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 North Macedonia was 0.41 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.55 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.41 in 2008.

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
1996 0.58
1997 0.48
1998 0.50
1999 0.63
2000 1.55
2002 0.63
2003 0.69
2004 0.68
2005 0.61
2006 0.68
2008 0.41

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 North Macedonia was 0.129 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.485 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.129 in 2008.

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
1996 0.181
1997 0.151
1998 0.157
1999 0.197
2000 0.485
2002 0.197
2003 0.217
2004 0.211
2005 0.191
2006 0.213
2008 0.129

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 North Macedonia was 0.434 as of 2006. Its highest value over the past 10 years was 0.858 in 2004, while its lowest value was 0.054 in 1996.

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
1996 0.054
1997 0.188
1998 0.524
1999 0.483
2000 0.734
2002 0.811
2003 0.758
2004 0.858
2005 0.709
2006 0.434

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 North Macedonia was 7.84 as of 2006. Its highest value over the past 10 years was 7.84 in 2006, while its lowest value was 1.42 in 1998.

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
1996 1.91
1997 1.69
1998 1.42
1999 1.46
2000 1.99
2002 6.58
2003 6.73
2004 7.19
2005 7.06
2006 7.84

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 North Macedonia was 0.78 as of 2006. Its highest value over the past 10 years was 1.11 in 2003, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 1999.

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
1996 0.21
1997 0.02
1998 0.21
1999 0.00
2000 0.52
2002 0.81
2003 1.11
2004 0.84
2005 0.69
2006 0.78

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in North Macedonia was 68.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 68.00 in 2019 and 57.00 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 57.00
2005 57.00
2010 62.00
2015 66.00
2017 67.00
2019 68.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage