Table 1.

Public and private spending per capita on major NCDs, by region in Mongolia (in US$)*

Region/condition	Public	Private	All NCDs
Western region	19.2	49.9	69.1
Khangai	17.0	43.7	60.7
Central	14.4	38.9	53.3
Eastern	16.1	44.0	60.2
Province total	16.6	43.7	60.4
Ulan Bataar†	21.2	40.8	62.0

NCDs – non-communicable diseases

*Source: Authors’ analysis of data from the following sources: Public Expenditure Estimates are from Dugee et al, 2017 [16]; Out-of-Pocket Expenditures are based on WHO STEPs survey, 2013 for Mongolia and Administrative Data set of Health Service Use from the Centre for Health Development of Ministry of Health.

†Ulan Bataar is the capital city where 47.0% of the Mongolian population reside. Provincial regions are in the order of a distance to the capital city from the farthest Western ( ~ 2000 km) to the nearest Eastern ( ~ 300km) region.