Table 3

Distribution of Out-of-pocket Health Payments in Low-income Countries, World Health Survey, 2003

Out-of-pocket Health Payments


Medicines
Inpatient
Outpatient
Traditional
Others


%
%
%
%
%






Bangladesh
67.1
6.3
8.1
5.0
13.6
Burkina Faso
62.2
9.7
8.0
7.8
12.3
Chad
11.1
43.8
12.0
12.2
20.9
Comoros
47.6
16.9
15.6
3.0
16.9
Cote D'Ivoire
32.2
29.4
15.6
5.5
17.2
Ethiopia
43.3
16.8
24.6
2.3
13.0
Ghana
40.1
23.3
21.8
5.6
9.1
India
44.4
25.4
16.9
3.3
9.9
Kenya
31.0
32.8
17.1
1.5
17.5
Lao PDR
47.8
25.2
10.1
10.7
6.2
Malawi
48.1
15.9
27.1
4.4
4.4
Mali
30.8
23.3
20.2
9.9
15.8
Mauritania
31.0
22.4
12.1
3.6
30.9
Myanmar
47.8
11.9
26.6
5.2
8.4
Nepal
68.8
13.9
4.3
1.5
11.5
Pakistan
45.5
21.2
14.5
7.0
11.8
Senegal
31.5
24.8
13.8
12.9
17.0
Vietnam
37.0
27.2
21.9
5.0
8.9
Zambia
34.8
26.9
15.2
9.3
13.8
Zimbabwe
25.2
12.0
30.6
14.5
17.7

Median
41.7
22.9
15.6
5.4
13.3
25th percentile
31.4
15.4
12.1
3.5
9.7
75th percentile
47.7
25.8
21.8
9.5
17.1

Vialle-Valentin et al. Health Research Policy and Systems 2008 6:11   doi:10.1186/1478-4505-6-11