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 |