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Table 4 Population coverage

From: State budget transfers to health insurance funds: extending universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries of the WHO European Region

Country

(Social) health insurance coverage of total population

Exempted as share of

insured population

eligible population

Albania

less than 50 % (according to household surveys, no year indicated) [37]

n/a

n/a

Bosnia & Herzegovina

a) Federation

; b) Republika Srpska

65 %–83 % (2007) (depending on the part of the country) [80]

50 % (2007) [61]

a) 82 %

; b) 70 % (2007) [81]

Bulgaria

77 % (2011) [38]

35 %a [38]

n/a

Georgia

MIP: 50 % (2012) [21];

Universal Health Care Program: 91 % (2014) [36]

72 % (2010) [53]

73 % (2011) [21]

Kyrgyzstan

78 % (2009) [30];

85 % of women and 90 % of men (2012) [82]

n/a

n/a

Lithuania

96 % (2008) [83]

58 % (including pensioners)a [83]

n/a

Montenegro

96 % (2008) [84]

unemployed: 25 % (2008)

refugees: 3 % (2008) [67]

n/a

Republic of Moldova

72 % (2008); 78 % (2010);

80 % (2011) [39, 49]

65 % (2011) [49]

n/a

Romania

90 % (urban: 95 %; rural: 85 %) (2008) [69]

66 % (including persons in military service)a [43]

n/a

Russian Federation

97 % (2009);

98 % (2010) [27]

n/a

95 % (year not indicated) [27]

Serbia

93 % (2009) [85]

registered unemployed: 2 % (2009)

all other exempted groups: 18 % (2009) [86]

n/a

TFYR Macedonia

85 % (2012) [79]

29 % (2012) [79]

n/a

Turkey (Green Card Scheme)

95 % (2012) [23]

14 % (2011)a [87]

64 % (2007) [87, 88]

  1. a Calculations by authors based on data from the indicated sources.