THE HEALTHIEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD! ARE YOU THERE?
World’s Healthiest Countries
To identify the healthiest countries in the world, Bloomberg Rankings created health scores and health-risk scores for countries with populations of at least 1 million.
We subtracted the risk score from the health score to determine the country’s rank. Five-year averages, when available, were used to mitigate some of the short-term year-over-year swings.
Belgium
Rank: 20th
Health Grade: 77.48%
Total Health Score: 82.88%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.40%
Ireland
Rank: 19th
Health Grade: 79.91%
Total Health Score: 86.48%
Health Risk Penalty: 6.57%
Norway
Rank: 18th
Health Grade: 83.90%
Total Health Score: 89.37%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.47%
Hong Kong
Rank: 17th
Health Grade: 81.41%
Total Health Score: 86.10%
Health Risk Penalty: 4.69%
New Zealand
Rank: 15th
Health Grade: 81.79%
Total Health Score: 87.87%
Health Risk Penalty: 6.08%
France
Rank: 13th
Health Grade: 82.99%
Total Health Score: 88.66%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.68%
Austria
Rank: 12th
Health Grade: 83.10%
Total Health Score: 89.12%
Health Risk Penalty: 6.02%
Cyprus
Rank: 11th
Health Grade: 83.29%
Total Health Score: 88.87%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.57%
Germany
Rank: 10th
Health Grade: 83.58%
Total Health Score: 88.81%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.23%
Sweden
Rank: 9th
Health Grade: 83.90%
Total Health Score: 89.37%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.47%
Netherlands
Rank: 8th
Health Grade: 84.09%
Total Health Score: 88.40%
Health Risk Penalty: 4.31%
Spain
Rank: 7th
Health Grade: 84.36%
Total Health Score: 91.26%
Health Risk Penalty: 6.90%
Israel
Rank: 6th
Health Grade: 85.97%
Total Health Score: 91.97%
Health Risk Penalty: 6.00
Switzerland
Rank: 4th
Health Grade: 88.29%
Total Health Score: 93.47%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.17%
Australia
Rank: 3rd
Health Grade: 88.33
Total Health Score: 93.19
Health Risk Penalty: 4.86
Italy
Rank: 2nd
Health Grade: 89.07%
Total Health Score: 94.61%
Health Risk Penalty: 5.54%
Singapore
Rank: 1st
Health Grade: 89.45%
Total Health Score: 92.52%
Health Risk Penalty: 3.07%
Dr. Pinna says:
The rankings of these countries was done without bias and using strict publicly available criteria. No one made money on this publication.
IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS:
1. Small countries
2. Intelligent people.
3. A culture that values health over wealth.
4. Governments are the servants of the people—not their masters.
5. Few immigrants.
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