Comoros Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk)

Comoros Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk): Key Points

• What jumps out first is the 3% fall — Comoros' risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care went from 47.00 Percentage in 2014 to 45.80 Percentage in 2022.
• 2015: rises to 48.20 Percentage (+3%).
• 2019: slips to 45.20 Percentage (-6%).
• 2020-2022: sits at 45.80 Percentage, near enough unchanged.
• Note: no data between 2015 and 2019 — the source skips that stretch entirely rather than reporting a zero or an estimate.
• 2022: Finishes at 45.80 Percentage, down 2.6% from where it started in 2014.

Making Sense Of A Bumpy Path

Don't stop at the 2.6% headline. This chart travels a long way from 47.00 and back before settling near its starting point — the journey matters more than the destination here.

Before drawing a conclusion from this chart alone, check how Comoros compares to similar countries on risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care — the shape of this one line can look dramatic or unremarkable depending entirely on what it's measured against.

As with almost all cross-national statistical series, this one blends real survey years with modeled estimates for the gaps — the year-to-year precision is lower than the chart's smooth line suggests.

There's a real gap between 2015 and 2019 in the underlying data — not a zero, not an interpolated value, just missing. Don't read a straight line between those two points as what actually happened in between.