Financial accessibility

This subsection will document finance and expenditure aspects of access to healthcare.

maps current expenditures on health per capita measured in current US dollars. Estimates

of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year

. The

expenditure remains a key variable of access to health; and it is determined to a large part by the

wealth of the country. For example, the top spenders in Figure 20 are oil rich Gulf countries. Qatar

(QAT) leads with 2029$ followed by United Arab Emirates (ARE) with 1401$. Saudi Arabia (SAU)

takes the third spot with 1194$ spending. At the very bottom is Guinea (GIN) which spends only

Figure 19: Current health expenditure per capita, PPP (current USD) in top panel and Out-of-

pocket expenditure per capita (current USD) in bottom panel