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Change in poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending ($ 2011 PPP), $5.50 poverty line by country

Countries reporting
46
Highest
0.2106
Georgia
Lowest
-0.0006
Hungary
Median
0.0249
Years covered
35
1984–2018
Data points
445

What the numbers show

Change in poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending ($ 2011 PPP), $5.50 poverty line is currently reported for 46 countries. The highest value is 0.2106 in Georgia; the lowest is -0.0006 in Hungary.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0249, and the mean is 0.0404.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 340.

Over the past decade 13 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Croatia (up 70,653.4%), and the largest decrease in Hungary (down 110.2%).

Change in poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending ($ 2011): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Georgia 0.2106 2013 up 74.6% rising
2 Nicaragua 0.2087 2014 up 71.3% rising
3 India 0.1549 2011 up 49.1% rising
4 Bangladesh 0.1145 2016 up 43.6% rising
5 Armenia 0.1086 2013 down 18.4% falling
6 Albania 0.0872 2012 down 51.4% falling
7 United States of America 0.0856 2018 up 331.7% volatile
8 Pakistan 0.0847 2015 down 6.8% flat
9 Côte d'Ivoire 0.0673 2015 down 54.8% rising
10 Mali 0.0635 2016 up 18.0% rising
11 Jamaica 0.0629 2004 up 17.4% falling
12 Republic of Moldova 0.0551 2016 down 35.9% falling
13 Viet Nam 0.0523 2016 down 60.9% falling
14 Philippines 0.0488 2015 up 28.3% rising
15 Latvia 0.0404 2010 up 96.8% falling
16 Kyrgyzstan 0.0369 2016 up 3.3% falling
17 Indonesia 0.0352 2015 down 8.7% falling
18 Mexico 0.0343 2012 down 66.1% falling
19 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0321 2016 down 48.4% falling
19 Kosovo 0.0321 2016 down 48.4% falling
21 Palestine, State of 0.0268 2016 down 36.6% falling
22 Romania 0.0267 2016 down 46.1% falling
23 Peru 0.0253 2015 down 53.5% falling
24 North Macedonia 0.0244 2008 down 20.0% falling
25 Israel 0.0187 2016 down 28.4% falling
26 Serbia 0.0147 2015 down 58.4% falling
27 Bulgaria 0.0137 2010 down 52.6% rising
28 Montenegro 0.0137 2015 down 46.6% volatile
29 Mongolia 0.01 2012 down 58.3% falling
30 Estonia 0.0086 2010 down 67.8% falling
31 Ukraine 0.0075 2014 down 84.0% volatile
32 Japan 0.0068 2015 down 20.2% falling
33 Lithuania 0.0067 2010 down 77.4% falling
34 Türkiye 0.0067 2016 down 62.0% falling
35 Kazakhstan 0.0053 2015 down 47.9% volatile
36 Taiwan, China 0.0047 2016 down 18.2% volatile
37 Poland 0.0045 2016 down 68.3% falling
38 Slovenia 0.004 2012 up 616.9% volatile
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.004 2015 down 71.7% volatile
40 Slovakia 0.004 2010 down 71.0% volatile
41 Croatia 0.0038 2010 up 70,653.4% volatile
42 Canada 0.0024 2010 down 29.4% falling
43 Russian Federation 0.001 2014 down 85.6% volatile
44 Belarus 0.0008 2016 down 93.7% volatile
45 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 2013 up 275.9% volatile
46 Hungary -0.0006 2015 down 110.2% volatile

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Indicator
Change in poverty gap due to out-of-pocket health spending ($ 2011 PPP), $5.50 poverty line
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
46 places, 445 data points, 1984–2018
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