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Table 2 Country overview

From: State budget transfers to Health Insurance Funds for universal health coverage: institutional design patterns and challenges of covering those outside the formal sector in Eastern European high-income countries

Country

Year of shift to high-income classification [11]

Population (2013, in millions) [48]

GDP per capita (2013, in current US$) [49]

Poverty headcount ratio (% of population, 2012)a [49]

Year of introduction of (social) health insurance

Year when budget transfer to exempt those unable to contribute was introduced

Croatia

2008

4,3

13,597

19.5

1993 [20]

1993 [50]

Czech Republic

2006

10,5

19,858

8.6

1992 [51]

1992 [51]

Estonia

2006

1,3

18, 877

18.6

1992 [51]

1999 [16]

Hungary

2007

9,9

13,485

14.3

1990 [52]

1990 [52]

Poland

2009

38,5

13,653

17.3

1999 [51]

1999 [51]

Slovakia

2007

5,4

18.049

12.8

1994 [22]

1994 [22]

Slovenia

1997

2,1

23,295

14.5

1992 [23]

1992 [23]

  1. Legend: GDP gross domestic product
  2. aAt national poverty line