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Table 1 Economic development, poverty and health care financing

From: Selling my sheep to pay for medicines – household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage

 

Ethiopia

World

Annual GDP growth [12]

9.6%

2.6%

Gini index [16, 51]

33.2

70.5

Population living below the poverty line (<$1.90 a day (2011 PPP) [12]

33.5%

12.7%

Tax revenue (of GDP in 2011) [12]

9.2%

12.9%

OOP expenses for health care covered by households [15]

General: 34% Children 48%

 

OOP per total health expenditure [5]

42.9%

20.6% (31.3% SSA)

Total health expenditure per GDP [5]

 1995

2.8%

6.0% (4.5% SSA)

 2013

4.7%

7.1% (5.5% SSA)

Total health expenditure per capita 2014 (US$) [5]

27

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  1. GDP gross domestic product, PPP purchasing power parity, OOP out-of-pocket, SSA sub-Saharan Africa