Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: catastrophic-health-spending-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2019	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	139	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	139	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	19	0
Population spending more than 10% of household budget on health out of pocket (%)catastrophic_spendingHeadline	The headline figure: Population in households spending more than 10% of their budget on health out of pocket (%).	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.133Somalia31.208Georgiamiddle 6.880	139	0
Surveysurvey_idLabel	The World Bank’s identifier for the household survey the reading was computed from: country, year, survey name and version.	Text	—	139	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One edition, covering 139 countries.

Not in this dataset · 86 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustriaBahamasBahrainBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCambodiaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFranceFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIcelandIsle of ManKiribatiKuwaitLebanonLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMalaysiaMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth KoreaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTanzaniaTongaTunisiaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   datatopics.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators — HEFPI Summer 2022 (25 August 2022)

   HEFPI Summer 2022 25 Aug 2022.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: catastrophic-health-spending-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/catastrophic-health-spending

From the World Bank’s Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database (2022 update), computed from household surveys and read from the Bank’s own Stata file. The survey behind each reading is named in the download.

• Charted

  Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Poverty & Inequality

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 10 held · 2015–2024