The Gambia - 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)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.884 |
Increase in poverty gap at $1.90 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.465 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.748 |
| 2010 | 0.172 |
| 2015 | 0.119 |
Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (USD)
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 |
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| 2003 | 1.58 |
Increase in poverty gap at $3.20 ($ 2011 PPP) poverty line due to out-of-pocket health care expenditure (% of poverty line)
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 |
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| 2003 | 0.493 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.235 |
| 2010 | 0.281 |
| 2015 | 0.495 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.430 |
| 2010 | 0.608 |
| 2015 | 0.197 |
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 |
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| 2003 | 0.027 |
| 2010 | 0.062 |
| 2015 | 0.028 |
UHC service coverage index
The latest value for UHC service coverage index in The Gambia was 48.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 48.00 in 2019 and 31.00 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 | 31.00 |
| 2005 | 37.00 |
| 2010 | 41.00 |
| 2015 | 45.00 |
| 2017 | 46.00 |
| 2019 | 48.00 |
Classification
Topic: Health Indicators
Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage
