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Out-of-pocket expenditure as share of health spending in Venezuela 2010-2021
In 2021, Venezuela's out-of-pocket health payments from households accounted for 28 percent of total health expenditure in the country, down from approximately 29 percent reported a year prior. This figure decreased by about 11 percentage points compared to 2010, when out-of-pocket health spending represented 39 percent of the total health expenditure in the country. Moreover, household out-of-pocket spending on health amounted to approximately 1.27 billion U.S. dollars during the last year depicted