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Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk), 2020

The proportion of population at risk of impoverishing expenditure when surgical care is required. Impoverishing expenditure is defined as direct out of pocket payments
for surgical and anaesthesia care which drive people below the extreme poverty threshold.

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Source: Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (via World Bank)