Risk Of Impoverishing Expenditure For Surgical Care (% Of People At Risk) 2014

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Topic: Health: Risk factors
Definition: 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 $1.25 PPP/day).
Source: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (www.lancetglobalsurgery.org).

List of countries ordered by: Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)

	Country	Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)
1	Burundi	98.70 %
2	Ethiopia	97.60 %
3	Niger	93.40 %
4	Eritrea	93.10 %
5	Malawi	91.80 %
6	D.R. Congo	90.60 %
7	Nepal	87.50 %
8	Madagascar	87.00 %
9	Liberia	85.60 %
10	Tanzania	85.50 %
11	Tajikistan	85.30 %
12	Uganda	85.00 %
13	Sierra Leone	84.30 %
14	Afghanistan	83.10 %
15	Burkina Faso	83.10 %
16	Rwanda	83.00 %
17	Central African Republic	82.90 %
18	Least developed countries	81.22 %
19	Guinea	80.70 %
20	Togo	80.50 %
21	Mozambique	80.50 %
22	Sao Tome and Principe	80.50 %
23	Bangladesh	79.10 %
24	Mali	77.70 %
25	Gambia	77.10 %
26	Laos	76.40 %
27	Chad	75.30 %
28	Kenya	75.20 %
29	Comoros	75.10 %
30	Uzbekistan	74.80 %
31	Benin	74.50 %
32	Haiti	74.50 %
33	Timor-Leste	72.00 %
34	Cambodia	71.80 %
35	Congo	69.90 %
36	Bolivia	69.80 %
37	Mauritania	68.60 %
38	Guinea-Bissau	67.80 %
39	India	67.30 %
40	Nigeria	65.30 %
41	Sudan	65.20 %
42	Kyrgyzstan	65.10 %
43	Viet Nam	63.60 %
44	Côte d'Ivoire	62.90 %
45	Pakistan	62.80 %
46	Djibouti	62.20 %
47	LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN	61.94 %
48	Honduras	61.80 %
49	Bhutan	61.50 %
50	Lesotho	61.40 %
51	Senegal	60.10 %
52	Paraguay	59.40 %
53	Cameroon	57.00 %
54	Solomon Islands	56.80 %
55	Papua New Guinea	55.80 %
56	Namibia	55.70 %
57	Angola	55.50 %
58	Equatorial Guinea	55.20 %
59	Mongolia	54.00 %
60	Ghana	53.90 %
61	Yemen	53.80 %
62	China	52.70 %
63	Zambia	52.50 %
64	Guatemala	52.40 %
65	Philippines	50.60 %
66	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	50.60 %
67	South Africa	50.10 %
68	Botswana	50.00 %
69	Indonesia	48.40 %
70	Turkmenistan	45.70 %
71	Georgia	45.10 %
72	Colombia	44.60 %
73	Swaziland	44.40 %
74	Sri Lanka	44.20 %
75	Morocco	43.50 %
76	Republic of Moldova	41.90 %
77	Belize	41.30 %
78	Peru	39.80 %
79	Seychelles	39.20 %
80	Brazil	38.80 %
81	Ecuador	38.40 %
82	Azerbaijan	38.40 %
83	TFYR Macedonia	38.10 %
84	Iran	37.60 %
85	Guyana	37.20 %
86	Egypt	37.20 %
87	Vanuatu	37.00 %
88	Syrian Arab Republic	35.70 %
89	Nicaragua	35.50 %
90	Algeria	35.50 %
91	Cuba	34.60 %
92	Kiribati	34.10 %
93	Panama	33.60 %
94	Suriname	33.30 %
95	Costa Rica	32.40 %
96	El Salvador	32.30 %
97	Cabo Verde	32.10 %
98	Thailand	29.40 %
99	Malaysia	29.10 %
100	Chile	28.70 %
101	Latvia	27.20 %
102	Gabon	26.80 %
103	Dominican Republic	26.60 %
104	Grenada	25.60 %
105	Venezuela	24.80 %
106	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.40 %
107	Fiji	24.10 %
108	Armenia	23.10 %
109	Tunisia	22.40 %
110	Mauritius	22.10 %
111	Saint Lucia	22.00 %
112	Jamaica	21.00 %
113	Libya	20.40 %
114	Uruguay	18.50 %
115	Samoa	18.40 %
116	Russian Federation	18.10 %
117	Mexico	17.80 %
118	Estonia	17.60 %
119	Antigua and Barbuda	17.50 %
120	Jordan	17.20 %
121	Barbados	16.10 %
122	Tonga	16.00 %
123	Argentina	15.50 %
124	Ukraine	15.30 %
125	Singapore	15.30 %
126	Saudi Arabia	14.90 %
127	Lebanon	13.30 %
128	Bahamas	12.60 %
129	Lithuania	12.10 %
130	Albania	11.30 %
131	Oman	10.30 %
132	Trinidad and Tobago	9.60 %
133	Kazakhstan	9.50 %
134	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.20 %
135	Maldives	8.80 %
136	Brunei Darussalam	8.30 %
137	Qatar	7.70 %
138	Belarus	7.40 %
139	Turkey	7.40 %
140	Serbia	6.20 %
141	Malta	6.10 %
142	Iraq	5.60 %
143	Hungary	5.60 %
144	Portugal	4.90 %
145	Kuwait	4.40 %
146	Bulgaria	4.30 %
147	Israel	4.20 %
148	Bahrain	3.20 %
149	Croatia	2.80 %
150	United Arab Emirates	2.20 %
151	Poland	2.00 %
152	Montenegro	1.70 %
153	New Zealand	1.60 %
154	Iceland	1.60 %
155	United States of America	1.40 %
156	Slovenia	1.10 %
157	Italy	1.10 %
158	Greece	1.10 %
159	Romania	0.80 %
160	Ireland	0.70 %
161	Cyprus	0.70 %
162	Spain	0.60 %
163	United Kingdom	0.60 %
164	Australia	0.60 %
165	Switzerland	0.60 %
166	Republic of Korea	0.40 %
167	Belgium	0.40 %
168	Canada	0.30 %
169	Czech Republic	0.30 %
170	Slovakia	0.20 %
171	France	0.20 %
172	Austria	0.10 %
173	Luxembourg	0.10 %
174	Netherlands	0.10 %
175	Sweden	0.00 %
176	Norway	0.00 %
177	Japan	0.00 %
178	Germany	0.00 %
179	Monaco	0.00 %
180	Finland	0.00 %
181	Denmark	0.00 %

Source: Health Nutrition and Population Statistics - World Bank - Downloaded in August 2017

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