Skip to main content

Table 2 World Bank income group (2016) and minimum levels of health financing [9] and expected national self-financing of school deworming

From: Estimated need for anthelminthic medicines to control soil-transmitted helminthiases in school-aged children, 2020–2030

World Bank income group

GNI per capita thresholds (USD)

Number of STH-endemic countries

Minimum health spending per capita (USD 2016)

Minimum government health spending per total health spending (2016)

Expected independency form drug donations

High income

12 056

4

5184

0.782

Independent from 2022 onwards

Upper middle income

3896/12 055

28

461

0.499

Independent from 2022 onwards

Lower middle income

996/3895

35

74

0.284

Progressively independent procurement from 2022 onwards based of comparison of projected health financing levels to minimum levels of 2016

Low income

995

32

38

0.233

Non-independent before 2030

  1. GNI gross national income, STH soil­transmitted helminthiases, USD United States dollar