Skip to main content

Table 5 Impoverishment indicators using the international poverty line

From: What has been the progress in addressing financial risk in Uganda? Analysis of catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payments

 

Pre-payment poverty (%)

(A)

Post-payment poverty (%)

(B)

Absolute difference (%)

(B-A)

2005/06 (PPP = 513.9492)

 Poverty headcount

51.8

57.0

5.2

 Normalised mean positive poverty gap

35.2

37.0

 

2009/10 (PPP = 741.3262)

 Poverty headcount

46.3

50.8

4.5

 Normalised mean positive poverty gap

33.4

34.9

 

2012/13 (PPP = 1043.083)

 Poverty headcount

64.0

67.2

3.2

 Normalised mean positive poverty gap

39.4

40.2

 

2016/17 (PPP = 1161.989)

51.8

57.0

5.2

 Poverty headcount

35.2

37.0

 

 Normalised mean positive poverty gap

   
  1. Source: Authors’ computation based on the UNHS 2005/06-2016/17 data