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WHO recommended budget for health is 5% of the GDP
WHO does not set a single recommended percentage of GDP that countries should spend on health. WHO’s own indicator page explicitly says there is no ‘recommended’ level of spending on health.
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This parenthetical claim misattributes a 5% of GDP health-spending recommendation to the World Health Organization.
WHO’s own indicator page on health expenditure says the opposite: “there is no ‘recommended’ level of spending on health.” WHO explains that health spending can be measured as a share of GDP or government expenditure, but it does not present 5% of GDP as an official WHO-recommended budget target.
So the problem is not whether 5% is sometimes used as a benchmark in policy debates; it is that the article specifically says WHO recommended it, which WHO’s own materials do not support.
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- Health expenditure | World Health Organization
WHO explains that health spending can be measured relative to GDP and government expenditure, but adds: “Although increasing health expenditure is associated with better health outcomes, especially in low-income countries, there is no 'recommended' level of spending on health.”
international poverty line of US$1.25 per day
This uses an obsolete poverty threshold. The World Bank’s international poverty line has not been $1.25 for years; it was $2.15 before June 2025 and is now $3.00 per person per day.
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The claim uses an outdated international poverty line.
The World Bank replaced the old $1.25/day line years ago. It later used $2.15/day (2017 PPPs) and, as of June 5, 2025, updated the international poverty line again to $3.00 per person per day using 2021 PPPs.
That means describing the international poverty line as US$1.25 per day is incorrect on a current reference page. It refers to a superseded historical threshold, not the current international poverty line.
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- June 2025 Update to Global Poverty Lines | World Bank
The World Bank says the new international poverty line is $3.00 per person per day and that it “replaces the previous $2.15 poverty line based on 2017 PPPs.”
- Fact Sheet: An Adjustment to Global Poverty Lines | World Bank
The World Bank explained in 2022 that the international poverty line was updated from the older benchmark to $2.15 using 2017 PPPs.
but from then until May, lower temperatures predominate, with less precipitation.
This gets the temperature pattern wrong. The dry season is less rainy, but March–May are among the hottest months in The Gambia, not a period when lower temperatures predominate.
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The sentence is only half right.
It is true that rainfall drops outside the rainy season, but the claim that “from then until May, lower temperatures predominate” is incorrect. The Gambian government’s climate page says the dry season runs from November to May, and specifically notes that March, April, and May are marked by the hot, dry Harmattan, with temperatures exceeding 38°C (100°F) in the interior.
A recent UNFCCC submission from The Gambia likewise states that the hottest months are March, April and May. So while the period after the rains is drier, it is not generally characterized by lower temperatures all the way until May.
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- Climate – The Official Website of The Government of The Gambia
The site says the dry season extends from November to May, and that during March, April, and May the Harmattan brings temperatures that exceed 38°C (100°F) in the interior.
- The Gambia Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC
The report states that the hottest months in The Gambia are March, April and May.