Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care

The proportion of population at risk of impoverishing expenditure when surgical care is required. Impoverishing expenditure is defined as direct out of pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care which drive people below a poverty threshold (using a threshold of $2.15 PPP/day).

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
141
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

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

    Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard

    Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, uri: https://www.pgssc.org/

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20221.80percent
Algeria202229.10percent
Angola202254.20percent
Argentina20227.70percent
Armenia20223.30percent
Austria20220percent
Bangladesh202267.30percent
Belarus20220.90percent
Belgium20220percent
Belize202234.50percent

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