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Proportion of population facing large (but non-impoverishing) out-of-pocket health expenditure

Proportion of population spending more than 40% but less than 100% of household discretionary budget on out-of-pocket health expenditure (%) The discretionary budget is defined as the total household budget, measured by consumption expenditure or income, minus the societal poverty line (SPL). Using 2017 purchasing power parities (PPPs), the SPL corresponds to whichever is greater: $2.15 (the international poverty line) or $1.15 + 50% of median household consumption expenditure or income, excluding out-of-pocket household expenditure on health. Out-of-pocket health expenditure is defined as any spending incurred by a household when any member uses a health good or service to receive any type of care (preventive, curative, rehabilitative, long-term or palliative care); provided by any type of provider; for any type of disease, illness or health condition; in any type of setting (outpatient, inpatient, at home).

Coverage
161 of 238 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
161
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing
Interva ID
worldbank-proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

3 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

37%

121 of 161 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 37% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 161 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 4 observations; the earliest begins in 1985.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Proportion of population facing large (but non-impoverishing) out-of-pocket health expenditure for each of the 161 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Georgia20249.86percent
North Macedonia20242.88percent
Andorra20232percent
Bulgaria202310.04percent
Cambodia20237.99percent
Cyprus20233.05percent
Czechia20232.76percent
Georgia202310.47percent
Greece20235.52percent
Guatemala20232.11percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Health Organization

    Universal Health Coverage Dataset, World Health Organization (WHO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank (WB), note: World Health Organization ( WHO )

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Proportion of population facing large (but non-impoverishing) out-of-pocket health expenditure. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing,
  title        = {Proportion of population facing large (but non-impoverishing) out-of-pocket health expenditure},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-proportion-of-population-facing-large-but-non-impoverishing; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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