Private prepaid plans (% of private expenditure on health) by country
Prepaid and risk-pooling plans are the expenditure on health by private insurance institutions. Private insurance enrolment may be contractual or voluntary, and conditions and benefits or basket of benefits are agreed on a voluntary basis between the insurance agent and the beneficiaries. They are thus not...
What the numbers show
Private prepaid plans (% of private expenditure on health) is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 81.1% in South Africa; the lowest is 0.1% in Uganda.
The median across all reporting countries is 3.6%, and the mean is 11.0%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 541.
Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Benin (up 11,816.7%), and the largest decrease in Sierra Leone (down 69.0%).
Private prepaid plans: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 81.1% | 2011 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 2 | Botswana | 79.9% | 2011 | up 1,299.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Namibia | 61.1% | 2011 | down 29.4% | falling |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 30.9% | 2008 | up 88.9% | rising |
| 5 | Seychelles | 23.2% | 2011 | — | volatile |
| 6 | Eswatini | 19.1% | 2011 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 7 | Senegal | 17.9% | 2011 | up 133.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Malawi | 15.8% | 2011 | up 71.4% | rising |
| 9 | Madagascar | 15.2% | 2011 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 10 | Morocco | 11.7% | 2011 | down 50.6% | falling |
| 11 | Tunisia | 10.3% | 2011 | down 42.2% | falling |
| 12 | Rwanda | 10.2% | 2010 | up 1,033.3% | volatile |
| 13 | Kenya | 9.3% | 2011 | up 43.4% | rising |
| 14 | Benin | 7.2% | 2011 | up 11,816.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Mauritius | 6.3% | 2011 | down 33.0% | falling |
| 16 | Ghana | 6.2% | 2011 | down 41.2% | falling |
| 17 | Algeria | 5.1% | 2011 | up 35.9% | rising |
| 18 | Niger | 4.4% | 2011 | down 50.8% | falling |
| 19 | Togo | 4.2% | 2011 | down 2.1% | falling |
| 20 | Zambia | 3.6% | 2011 | up 288.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Congo | 3.6% | 2011 | up 263.6% | volatile |
| 22 | Gambia | 3.1% | 2011 | up 35.8% | rising |
| 23 | Cape Verde | 3.1% | 2011 | up 19.8% | falling |
| 24 | Nigeria | 3.1% | 2011 | down 52.7% | falling |
| 25 | Burkina Faso | 2.5% | 2011 | up 153.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Central African Republic | 1.8% | 2011 | up 37.7% | rising |
| 27 | Egypt | 1.7% | 2011 | up 369.4% | volatile |
| 28 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 1.5% | 2011 | down 64.5% | rising |
| 29 | Ethiopia | 1.5% | 2011 | up 109.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1.1% | 2011 | down 53.5% | falling |
| 31 | Sudan | 1.0% | 2011 | down 54.6% | falling |
| 32 | Djibouti | 0.9% | 2011 | down 40.3% | falling |
| 33 | Liberia | 0.7% | 2011 | — | volatile |
| 34 | Guinea | 0.7% | 2011 | up 6,700.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Mauritania | 0.6% | 2011 | unchanged | flat |
| 36 | Mali | 0.4% | 2011 | up 1,333.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Chad | 0.2% | 2011 | down 34.2% | falling |
| 38 | Sierra Leone | 0.2% | 2011 | down 69.0% | volatile |
| 38 | Burundi | 0.2% | 2011 | down 21.7% | falling |
| 40 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 0.2% | 2011 | — | volatile |
| 41 | Uganda | 0.1% | 2011 | down 28.6% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
About this data
Prepaid and risk-pooling plans are the expenditure on health by private insurance institutions. Private insurance enrolment may be contractual or voluntary, and conditions and benefits or basket of benefits are agreed on a voluntary basis between the insurance agent and the beneficiaries. They are thus not controlled by government units for the purpose of providing social benefits to members.