Resource Type: Report
Authors: Carlos Avila, Catherine Connor, and Peter Amico
Published: 8/1/2013

Resource Description:

Given the African region’s healthy economic outlook, will resource mobilization for health still be an imperative in 2020? HFG looks ahead at the region’s health financing priorities by projecting domestic health spending per capita to 2020 relative to an internationally accepted target for universal coverage of essential health services. HFG established a baseline level of domestic health spending for 43 sub-Saharan African countries using data from National Health Accounts and the World Health Organization Global Health Observatory. The analysis modeled two assumptions: 1) domestic health spending will continue to increase in line with current economic growth; and 2) countries will move aggressively towards fulfilling their Abuja commitment (15 percent of government expenditure is allocated to health). Under the economic growth assumption alone, the projections indicate that a little over half of the countries will be spending over US$60 per capita by 2020.