World - 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 124,426,000
2005 129,703,600
2010 121,841,900
2015 115,427,500
2017 70,353,180

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 2.04
2005 2.00
2010 1.77
2015 1.58
2017 0.94

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 111,435,100
2005 133,142,500
2010 146,199,400
2015 163,998,600
2017 118,375,900

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 1.83
2005 2.05
2010 2.12
2015 2.24
2017 1.58

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 578,952,300
2005 707,774,400
2010 785,362,200
2015 940,271,600
2017 996,226,000

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 9.43
2005 10.82
2010 11.30
2015 12.75
2017 13.21

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 131,323,400
2005 167,392,000
2010 188,554,000
2015 269,972,300
2017 289,834,400

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 2.14
2005 2.56
2010 2.71
2015 3.66
2017 3.84

UHC service coverage index

The latest value for UHC service coverage index in World was 67.00 as of 2019. Over the past 19 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 67.00 in 2019 and 45.00 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 45.00
2005 50.00
2010 58.00
2015 64.00
2017 65.00
2019 67.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Universal Health Coverage