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Table 5 Impoverishment indicators at $1.91 per day poverty line –PPP

From: Correction to: 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

57.02

5.2

 Normalized mean positive poverty gap

35.2

37.0

 

2009/10 (PPP = 741.3262)

 Poverty headcount

46.3

50.8

4.5

 Normalized mean positive poverty gap

33.39

34.9

 

2012/13 (PPP = 1043.083)

 Poverty headcount

64.0

67.2

3.2

 Normalized mean positive poverty gap

39.4

40.2

 

2016/17 (PPP = 1161.989)

 Poverty headcount

49.0

51.7

2.7

 Normalized mean positive poverty gap

16.7

18.1

 
  1. Source: Authors’ computation based on the UNHS 2005–2017 data
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