Table 3.
Level of coverage with any type of health insurance across selected sociodemographic factors in 36 SSA countries
| Country | Employment status | Residence | Exposure to media | Level of education | Socioeconomic status | ||||||||||||
| Unemployed | Informal | Formal | Rural | Urban | Not at all | Less than once a week | At least once a week | No education | Primary | Secondary | Higher | Poorest | Poorer | Middle | Richer | Richest | |
| Angola | 6.0 | 4.2 | 8.4 | 2.3 | 7.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 22.1 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 6.2 | 12.3 |
| Benin | 1.1 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 3.8 |
| Burkina Faso | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 18.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.9 |
| Burundi | 18.1 | 20.4 | 49.6 | 21.5 | 25.1 | 15.9 | 21.9 | 28.7 | 19.8 | 21.3 | 23.7 | 56.7 | 11.2 | 16.8 | 21.0 | 26.0 | 32.6 |
| Cameroon | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 5.1 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 14.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 9.2 |
| Chad | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 4.0 |
| Comoros | 4.3 | 3.8 | 12.3 | 3.5 | 8.7 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 17.0 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 11.8 |
| Congo | 3.1 | 2.8 | 4.3 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 10.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 8.1 |
| Congo Democratic Republic | 6.8 | 2.1 | 8.8 | 1.7 | 10.4 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 6.3 | 22.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 14.9 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 6.2 | 2.4 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 7.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 10.9 | 27.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 13.4 |
| Eswatini | 3.0 | 5.8 | 17.1 | 2.9 | 15.1 | 7.6 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 5.9 | 26.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 17.4 |
| Ethiopia | 3.1 | 7.5 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 8.0 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 5.4 |
| Gabon | 40.9 | 36.2 | 46.8 | 55.2 | 38.9 | 39.2 | 39.4 | 42.9 | 14.4 | 42.7 | 39.1 | 58.7 | 56.3 | 34.6 | 32.3 | 35.6 | 49.6 |
| Gambia | 1.8 | 1.8 | 5.5 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 12.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 6.7 |
| Ghana | 63.0 | 52.6 | 62.0 | 56.3 | 59.9 | 54.1 | 56.5 | 58.9 | 58.3 | 50.9 | 58.0 | 73.6 | 59.0 | 53.1 | 53.8 | 58.3 | 65.1 |
| Guinea | 1.5 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 9.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 5.3 |
| Kenya | 9.6 | 18.1 | 52.8 | 13.9 | 28.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 | 22.6 | 2.6 | 10.8 | 22.7 | 55.9 | 3.2 | 8.0 | 13.9 | 23.4 | 39.5 |
| Lesotho | 7.8 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 11.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 6.0 |
| Liberia | 5.0 | 4.4 | 7.4 | 4.2 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 7.7 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 6.1 | 20.4 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 5.4 | 7.0 | 10.1 |
| Madagascar | 4.6 | 2.7 | 24.5 | 2.1 | 12.2 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 7.1 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 7.9 | 26.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 12.9 |
| Malawi | 1.2 | 0.8 | 9.7 | 0.7 | 7.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 26.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 6.7 |
| Mali | 5.2 | 2.3 | 11.3 | 2.9 | 13.2 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 13.3 | 45.5 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 17.7 |
| Mozambique | 2.0 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 1.6 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 5.3 | 23.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 6.6 |
| Namibia | 8.8 | 22.9 | 33.4 | 8.4 | 26.9 | 2.5 | 10.0 | 22.9 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 18.1 | 61.9 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 10.4 | 19.8 | 47.8 |
| Niger | 1.6 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 0.6 | 7.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 9.9 | 26.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 7.3 |
| Nigeria | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 11.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 7.0 |
| Rwanda | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 63.5 | 75.0 | 82.4 | 87.8 | 88.9 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Senegal | 6.4 | 4.6 | 11.4 | 2.3 | 11.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 8.0 | 1.6 | 6.6 | 16.7 | 39.9 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 16.0 |
| Sierra Leone | 1.3 | 0.9 | 9.2 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 11.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.9 |
| South Africa | 8.5 | 14.8 | 48.5 | 8.1 | 18.1 | 3.1 | 8.0 | 16.8 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 12.4 | 45.1 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 8.7 | 16.1 | 46.4 |
| Tanzania | 9.3 | 7.2 | 45.1 | 8.5 | 10.4 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 11.1 | 4.8 | 6.6 | 15.6 | 51.2 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 10.4 | 14.8 |
| Togo | 6.1 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 8.3 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 8.8 | 24.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 13.2 |
| Uganda | 0.9 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| Zambia | 1.0 | 1.6 | 8.3 | 0.6 | 4.9 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 23.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 9.2 |
| Zimbabwe | 7.3 | 8.6 | 25.9 | 4.1 | 24.1 | 1.4 | 4.6 | 17.3 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 9.3 | 59.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 11.6 | 33.7 |
– means data are not available.
SSA, sub-Saharan Africa.