Main Country Health Financing Indicators
Total Population, as of 1 July 2023 (millions)
Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current US$
Domestic general government revenue per capita in current US$
Domestic gen. government health expenditure per capita, in current US$
ODA grants for health received per capita, in current US$
General government gross debt per capita, in current US$
Domestic general government revenue in percent of GDP (%)
Dom. Gen. Government Health Expenditure in percent of government revenue (%)
Dom. Gen. Government Health Expenditure in percent of GDP (%)
General government gross debt, in percent of GDP (%)
Additional Country Health Financing Indicators
Total Population, as of 1 July 2023 (millions)
Gross domestic product (GDP), in current US$ (millions)
Domestic general government revenue, in current US$ (millions)
Domestic general government health expenditure, in current US$ (millions)
ODA grants for health received, in current US$ (millions)
General government gross debt, in current US$ (millions)
General government revenue, in percent of GDP (%)
ODA grants for Public Sector, in percent of GDP (%)
Main Health-Specific ODA Indicators
Total Population, as of 1 July 2023 (millions)
Gross domestic product (GDP), in current US$ (millions)
Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current US$
Real Transfers of ODA in the form of Grants, in current US$ (millions)
Real Transfers of ODA in the form of Grants per capita in current US$
Real Transfers of ODA in the form of Grants in percent of GNI (%)
ODA Grants for Health, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for Health per capita in current US$
ODA Grants for Health in percent of GNI (%)
Additional Health-Specific ODA Indicators
ODA Grants for specific HIV interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for specific COVID-19 interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for specific Tuberculosis interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for specific Malaria interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for specific NTDs interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for specific Ebola interventions, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for projects of reproductive health, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for child health incl. immunisation, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for sector-wide or general health programmes, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for projects of non-communicable diseases, in current US$ (millions)
ODA Grants for mental health, in current US$ (millions)
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given the range of public and private sources and the many types of services and programs that fall within the definition of “health sector.” It is made all the more complicated when significant external support from donors and private charities plus in-kind donations of drugs and other inputs are taken into account. The task is made yet harder by inadequate public expenditure management systems in countries where public agencies’ capacity is stretched very thin and by donor accounting structures that are not designed to respond in a timely way
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Timely, reliable and complete information on financial resources in the health sector is critical for sound policy making and planning, particularly in developing countries where resources are both scarce and unpredictable. Health resource tracking has a long history and has seen renewed interest mo
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re recently as pressure has mounted to improve accountability for the attainment of the health Millennium Development Goals. We review the methods used to track health resources and recent experiences of their application, with a view to identifying the major challenges that must be overcome if data availability and reliability are to improve.
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Prior research has considered donor funding for developing world health by recipient and donor country but not by disease. Examining funding by disease is critical since diseases may be in competition with one another for priority and donors may be making allocation decisions in ways that do not cor
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respond to developing world need. In this study I calculate donor funding for 20 historically high-burden communicable diseases for the years 1996 to 2003 and examine factors that may explain variance in priority levels among diseases. I consider funding for developing world health from 42 major donors, classifying grants according to the communicable disease targeted. Data show that funding does not correspond closely with burden. Acute respiratory infections comprise more than a quarter of the burden among these diseases but receive less than 3% of direct aid. Malaria also stands out as a high-burden neglected disease.
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Background: Timely reliable data on aid flows to maternal, newborn, and child health are essential for assessing the adequacy of current levels of funding, and to promote accountability among donors for attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for child and maternal health. We provide g
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lobal estimates of official development assistance (ODA) to maternal, newborn, and child health in 2003 and 2004, drawing on data reported by high-income donor countries and aid agencies to the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation.
Methods: ODA was tracked on a project-by-project basis to 150 developing countries. We applied a standard definition of maternal, newborn, and child health across donors, and included not only funds specific to these areas, but also integrated health funds and disease-specific funds allocated on a proportional distribution basis, using appropriate factors.
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As the Group of Eight (G8) world leaders meet in Saint Petersburg, Russia for this year’s G8 Summit, it is important to take stock of international efforts to finance the response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Financing a sufficient and sustained response to the epidemic has emerged as one of t
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he world’s greatest challenges, and one that will be with us for the foreseeable future. Often, those countries most affected are also least able to respond, increasing their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and in turn further complicating their ability to address the epidemic, as is the case for many nations in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, concerns have been raised about “second wave” nations, particularly China, India, and Russia, which stand on the brink of generalized epidemics if more is not done now
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The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was established by World Health Organization Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland in January 2000 to assess the place of health in global economic development. Although health is widely understood to be both a central goal and an important outcome
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of development, the importance of investing in health to promote economic development and poverty reduction has been much less appreciated. We have found that extending the coverage of crucial health services, including a relatively small number of specific interventions, to the world’s poor could save millions of lives each year, reduce poverty, spur economic development, and promote global security.
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The Abuja declaration identifies that the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and related infectious diseases must come with additional financial resources. Therefore, African governments agreed on setting the target of allocating at least 15 per cent of each country’s annual budget
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to the improvement of the health sector. Moreover, the declaration demands donor countries to assist by fulfilling the target of delivering official development assistance (ODA) in the amount of 0.7 per cent of gross national product (GNP).
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Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as budgetary pressures on aid have increased in donor countries. Whatever the merits of opposing arguments, the question is: do conventional measures of aid (such as OECD's Net ODA), which lump together grants and loans,
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accurately reflect true aid flows? The authors analyze the methodological shortcomings of conventional measures of aid and propose a new approach.
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