Table 7. Share of out-of-pocket health expenditure on medicines in countries included in the financial protection analysis in the South-East Asia Region.
| Country | Share of out-of-pocket health expenditure, % (SE) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | Quintiles | Region | ||||||
| Poorest | Poorer | Middle | Richer | Richest | Rural | Urban | ||
| Bangladesh | 81.09 (0.37) | 89.41 (0.65) | 85.41 (0.70) | 82.12 (0.83) | 77.62 (0.82) | 71.09 (0.93) | 82.02 (0.39) | 77.33 (0.92) |
| Bhutan | 76.38 (0.86) | 69.23 (3.44) | 72.44 (2.42) | 77.02 (2.11) | 80.80 (1.68) | 78.19 (1.40) | 69.31 (1.25) | 89.39 (0.76) |
| India | 79.93 (0.17) | 85.30 (0.33) | 81.24 (0.36) | 78.46 (0.34) | 74.69 (0.38) | 71.98 (0.39) | 81.51 (0.21) | 75.96 (0.26) |
| Maldives | 62.37 (1.39) | 71.25 (3.30) | 57.66 (3.33) | 64.28 (3.21) | 62.74 (2.47) | 57.73 (2.88) | 65.80 (1.72) | 54.52 (2.17) |
| Nepal | 77.13 (0.53) | 85.15 (1.26) | 79.31 (1.23) | 78.06 (1.13) | 72.41 (1.19) | 71.36 (0.95) | 77.08 (0.69) | 77.25 (0.69) |
| Sri Lanka | 34.05 (0.44) | 35.66 (1.35) | 31.64 (1.07) | 35.07 (1.00) | 34.10 (0.88) | 34.04 (0.77) | 32.53 (0.49) | 41.30 (0.94) |
| Thailand | 75.06 (0.37) | 82.10 (0.91) | 78.31 (0.76) | 74.35 (0.81) | 73.75 (0.79) | 70.37 (0.87) | 73.43 (0.53) | 77.22 (0.51) |
| Timor-Leste | 81.89 (1.11) | 80.19 (3.56) | 78.58 (2.98) | 86.37 (2.21) | 82.22 (2.15) | 81.08 (2.07) | 81.74(1.44) | 82.13 (1.72) |
SE: standard error.