Turkey - 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 Turkey was 0.003 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.055 in 2002 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, 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
2002 0.055
2003 0.050
2004 0.049
2005 0.050
2006 0.030
2007 0.032
2008 0.009
2009 0.015
2010 0.024
2011 0.006
2012 0.002
2013 0.012
2014 0.008
2015 0.014
2016 0.003

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 Turkey was 0.002 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.029 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.001 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
2002 0.029
2003 0.026
2004 0.026
2005 0.027
2006 0.016
2007 0.017
2008 0.005
2009 0.008
2010 0.013
2011 0.003
2012 0.001
2013 0.006
2014 0.004
2015 0.007
2016 0.002

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 Turkey was 0.022 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 0.361 in 2002, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2012.

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
2002 0.361
2003 0.092
2004 0.154
2005 0.097
2006 0.050
2007 0.110
2008 0.050
2009 0.043
2010 0.078
2011 0.061
2012 0.000
2013 0.034
2014 0.013
2015 0.060
2016 0.022

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 Turkey was 0.097 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.560 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.097 in 2016.

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
2002 0.560
2003 0.502
2004 0.412
2005 0.366
2006 0.362
2007 0.357
2008 0.260
2009 0.244
2010 0.280
2011 0.254
2012 0.146
2013 0.187
2014 0.101
2015 0.123
2016 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 Turkey was 0.030 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.175 in 2002 and a minimum value of 0.030 in 2016.

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
2002 0.175
2003 0.157
2004 0.129
2005 0.114
2006 0.113
2007 0.111
2008 0.081
2009 0.076
2010 0.087
2011 0.080
2012 0.046
2013 0.058
2014 0.032
2015 0.038
2016 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 Turkey was 0.147 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 0.587 in 2003, while its lowest value was 0.122 in 2015.

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
2002 0.460
2003 0.587
2004 0.433
2005 0.229
2006 0.202
2007 0.502
2008 0.265
2009 0.181
2010 0.269
2011 0.292
2012 0.215
2013 0.174
2014 0.167
2015 0.122
2016 0.147

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 Turkey was 3.19 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 6.01 in 2002, while its lowest value was 3.10 in 2012.

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
2002 6.01
2003 4.73
2004 5.57
2005 5.11
2006 5.00
2007 5.14
2008 3.74
2009 3.59
2010 3.86
2011 3.34
2012 3.10
2013 3.63
2014 3.69
2015 3.51
2016 3.19

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 Turkey was 0.36 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 14 years was 1.07 in 2002, while its lowest value was 0.32 in 2012.

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
2002 1.07
2003 0.99
2004 1.04
2005 0.87
2006 0.90
2007 0.91
2008 0.68
2009 0.73
2010 0.59
2011 0.45
2012 0.32
2013 0.48
2014 0.53
2015 0.50
2016 0.36

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in Turkey was 79.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.00 in 2019 and 61.00 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 61.00
2005 65.00
2010 66.00
2015 77.00
2017 77.00
2019 79.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage