Went Without Medical Care (Afrobarometer)
Share who went without medicine or medical treatment at least once in the past year. Afrobarometer Round 9, 2023.
Source: Afrobarometer (Round 9) Licence: Afrobarometer terms — public aggregates Unit: % Parsed: 2026-09-28 Open source ↗
Period: Round 9 (2021–2023). Method: Weighted by within-country weight (withinwt_ea); share giving the stated response.
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Avg (2023)
65.7%
single period
Improving
0
of 39 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
39
±0.5pp band
Went without medicine or medical treatment at least once in the past year
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| # | Entity | Went without medicine or medical treatment at least once in the past year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇲🇷 Mauritania | 89% |
| 2 | 🇨🇬 Congo-Brazzaville | 86.4% |
| 3 | 🇿🇲 Zambia | 84.3% |
| 4 | 🇦🇴 Angola | 83.8% |
| 5 | 🇱🇷 Liberia | 82.1% |
| 6 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 80.6% |
| 7 | 🇧🇯 Benin | 78.8% |
| 8 | 🇸🇿 Eswatini | 77.7% |
| 9 | 🇬🇦 Gabon | 77.5% |
| 10 | 🇹🇬 Togo | 77.4% |
| 11 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | 77.1% |
| 12 | 🇺🇬 Uganda | 77.1% |
| 13 | 🇬🇲 Gambia | 76% |
| 14 | 🇳🇪 Niger | 75.2% |
| 15 | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | 74.3% |
| 16 | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | 74.2% |
| 17 | 🇸🇳 Senegal | 73.1% |
| 18 | 🇬🇳 Guinea | 72.9% |
| 19 | 🇲🇼 Malawi | 70.5% |
| 20 | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | 68.9% |
| 21 | 🇸🇩 Sudan | 68.3% |
| 22 | 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe | 68.3% |
| 23 | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | 67.8% |
| 24 | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | 67.5% |
| 25 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | 65.8% |
| 26 | 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire | 65.6% |
| 27 | 🇧🇼 Botswana | 64.6% |
| 28 | 🇰🇪 Kenya | 62.3% |
| 29 | 🇳🇦 Namibia | 56.2% |
| 30 | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | 50.2% |
| 31 | 🇹🇳 Tunisia | 50% |
| 32 | 🇿🇦 South Africa | 49.6% |
| 33 | 🇲🇱 Mali | 49.2% |
| 34 | 🇱🇸 Lesotho | 49% |
| 35 | 🇲🇦 Morocco | 44.7% |
| 36 | 🇬🇭 Ghana | 42.6% |
| 37 | 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde | 33.9% |
| 38 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius | 30.3% |
| 39 | 🇸🇨 Seychelles | 19.7% |
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