Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk) - Country Ranking - Africa

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 Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School (https://www.pgssc.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Burundi 98.20 2019
2 Dem. Rep. Congo 84.40 2020
3 Madagascar 80.10 2020
4 Central African Republic 75.00 2007
5 Tanzania 73.60 2020
6 Niger 72.00 2020
7 Togo 68.90 2020
8 Uganda 68.70 2020
9 Malawi 67.40 2020
10 Congo 66.70 2020
11 Mozambique 65.60 2020
12 Guinea-Bissau 61.40 2020
13 Chad 60.40 2020
14 Rwanda 54.90 2020
15 Burkina Faso 54.20 2020
16 Mali 53.10 2020
17 Côte d'Ivoire 48.20 2007
18 Sierra Leone 47.90 2020
19 Sudan 46.40 2020
20 Guinea 46.10 2020
21 Benin 46.00 2020
22 Cameroon 39.30 2020
23 Angola 39.00 2020
24 Lesotho 38.60 2020
25 Kenya 36.40 2020
26 Comoros 34.20 2020
27 The Gambia 31.50 2020
28 Nigeria 30.60 2020
29 Mauritania 30.00 2020
30 Senegal 27.70 2020
31 South Africa 27.50 2020
32 Namibia 21.60 2020
33 Liberia 18.50 2020
34 Ghana 18.10 2020
35 Morocco 12.80 2020
36 Cabo Verde 11.00 2020
37 Egypt 9.70 2020
38 Gabon 6.90 2020
39 Botswana 6.50 2020
40 Algeria 5.80 2020
41 Seychelles 2.60 2020
42 Mauritius 1.70 2020
43 Tunisia 0.80 2020

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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual