Table 1.

Economic development, poverty and health care financing

	Ethiopia	World
Annual GDP growth [12]	9.6%	2.6%
Gini index [16, 51]	33.2	70.5
Population living below the poverty line (<$1.90 a day (2011 PPP) [12]	33.5%	12.7%
Tax revenue (of GDP in 2011) [12]	9.2%	12.9%
OOP expenses for health care covered by households [15]	General: 34% Children 48%
OOP per total health expenditure [5]	42.9%	20.6% (31.3% SSA)
Total health expenditure per GDP [5]
1995	2.8%	6.0% (4.5% SSA)
2013	4.7%	7.1% (5.5% SSA)
Total health expenditure per capita 2014 (US$) [5]	27	1061

GDP gross domestic product, PPP purchasing power parity, OOP out-of-pocket, SSA sub-Saharan Africa