Government measures to address out-of-pocket health expense in Kazakhstan

Figures & data

Table 1. External reference basket of Kazakhstan in 2017 and 2019

№	External reference basket of Kazakhstan in 2017	External reference basket of Kazakhstan in 2019
	Country	Country	Nominal GDP per capita in 2019 (US dollars)
1	Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Israel, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Japan, South Korea (total 39 countries).	Azerbaijan	4 480
2		Belarus	6 280
3		Bulgaria	9 410
4		Hungary	16 140
5		Greece	20 320
6		Latvia	17 730
7		Lithuania	18 990
8		Poland	15 200
9		Russia	11 260
10		Romania	12 630
11		Slovakia	19 320
12		Slovenia	25 750
13		Turkey	9 610
14		Croatia	14 910
15		Czech Republic	22 000
16		Estonia	23 220
17		Country of origin of the medicinal product

Source: Compiled by the authors

Figure 1. Problems faced by the population when buying medicines.

Source: compiled by the authors

Table 2. The source data for 2010–2019 in the context of the analyzed parameters

Year	Out-of-pocket medication expenses US dollars million (tenge, billion)	Government expenses on medicines US dollars million (tenge, billion)	Average salary US dollars (tenge)
2010	591,941,406 (87,690,200,000)	190,981,733 (28,292,034,000)	524 (77 611)
2011	615,238,775 (90,440,100,000)	221,026,517 (32,490,898,000)	612 (90 028)
2012	1,339,391,304 (198,698,700,000)	283,939,979 (42,122,496,000)	683 (101 263)
2013	755,527,072 (115,535,200,000)	284,694,336 (43,535,458,000)	714 (109 141)
2014	717,019,364 (128,482,700,000)	276,663,820 (49,575,390,000)	675 (121 021)
2015	853,966,986 (189,350,100,000)	261,368,592 (57,953,258,000)	703 (126 021)
2016	874,498,386 (299,218,368,000)	182,887,608 (62,576,824,000)	418 (142 898)
2017	758,371,779 (247,229,200,000)	267,862,791 (87,323,270,000)	463 (150 827)
2018	721,143,648 (248,585,427,000)	284,857,512 (98,193,233,000)	472 (162 673)
2019	657,861,131 (251,796,348,000)	267,926,333 (102,548,80,4000)	485 (185 487)

Source: Compiled by the authors

Figure 2. Dependence of public spending on health care and private spending on medicines.

Source: compiled by the authors