Table 4.

Cases of catastrophic health expenditure averted by public financing of 18 maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Nigeria, by income quintile (2019–30)

		Cases of catastrophic health expenditure spending averted, n	Proportion of total catastrophic health expenditure averted, %*
Uniform scale-up scenario†
Household wealth quintile‡
	1 (poorest)	1640	50·2%
	2	771	23·6%
	3	561	17·2%
	4	294	9·0%
	5 (wealthiest)	0	0
National		3266	NA
Pro-poor targeted scale-up scenario†
Household wealth quintile‡
	1 (poorest)	3336	62·1%
	2	1237	23·0%
	3	561	10·4%
	4	236	4·4%
	5 (wealthiest)	0	0
National		5369	NA

NA=not applicable.

^*Catastrophic health expenditure was defined as out-of-pocket payment for health expenditure that exceeded 10% of household income.

^†Estimates represent the difference of the specified scenario and the status quo scenario; for each scenario, cases of catastrophic health expenditure were estimated as the difference between the number of deaths in the index year and the number of deaths in the baseline year (2018).

^‡Quintiles were defined at the beginning of the analysis period (2018) and the population was considered as a cohort between 2018 and 2030—ie, individuals maintained their quintiles during the period of interest (2018–30).