The word healthcare is used to describe a wide range of systems that assist us to preserve our health via the treatment (or prevention) of sickness, injury, disease, and other physical or mental disabilities.
Medical physicians and hospitals, as well as dentistry, psychiatry, nursing, physical therapy, and occupational therapy, are all included in healthcare.
Access to healthcare varies greatly across nations, towns, and people, and is largely determined by economic and social variables.
Many individuals and countries consider healthcare to be a basic human right. People who lack access to excellent healthcare frequently have a worse quality of life and a shorter lifespan than those who have access to a stable, accessible, and cheap healthcare system.
Those with more efficient and effective healthcare systems have higher overall health outcomes than countries with less efficient and effective healthcare systems.
The care process (preventative care measures, safe care, coordinated care, and involvement and patient preferences), access (affordability and timeliness), administrative efficiency, equality, and healthcare outcomes are all elements that go into determining the quality of healthcare (population health, mortality amenable to healthcare, and disease-specific health outcomes).
Finding a top-notch healthcare system is rather simple. While healthcare systems are complicated, various characteristics may be utilized to decide which are the most successful.
The systems at hand are very complicated, and there is much dispute over which aspects are most essential and what an ideal system looks like. However, since healthcare is so essential, health-related businesses continue to look for the ideal system.
What nations in the world have the finest healthcare?
According to CEOWorld Magazine’s Health Care Index, the overall quality of health care in a country is measured by looking at things like infrastructure, medical professionals’ abilities, costs, availability of high-quality medicine, and government willingness to improve the quality of health care in that country.
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Each nation receives a score for each of the characteristics listed above, as well as a total score of 100. The 10 nations with the finest health care, according to this ranking, are:
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Denmark
- Austria
- Japan
- Australia
- France
- Spain
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
Best Healthcare in the World 2022
Country | LPI 2020 Ranking | LPI 2019 Ranking | CEO World Ranking | 2022 Population |
---|---|---|---|---|
Denmark | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5,834,950 |
Norway | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5,511,370 |
Switzerland | 3 | 3 | 18 | 8,773,637 |
Sweden | 4 | 4 | 28 | 10,218,971 |
Finland | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5,554,960 |
Netherlands | 6 | 6 | 11 | 17,211,447 |
New Zealand | 7 | 7 | 16 | 4,898,203 |
Germany | 8 | 8 | 17 | 83,883,596 |
Luxembourg | 9 | 9 | 642,371 | |
Austria | 10 | 12 | 4 | 9,066,710 |
Iceland | 11 | 14 | 41 | 345,393 |
Ireland | 12 | 11 | 80 | 5,020,199 |
United Kingdom | 13 | 10 | 10 | 68,497,907 |
Canada | 14 | 13 | 23 | 38,388,419 |
Singapore | 15 | 16 | 24 | 5,943,546 |
Australia | 16 | 17 | 6 | 26,068,792 |
Hong Kong | 17 | 15 | 36 | 7,604,299 |
United States | 18 | 18 | 30 | 334,805,269 |
Japan | 19 | 19 | 5 | 125,584,838 |
Taiwan | 20 | 22 | 2 | 23,888,595 |
Estonia | 21 | 21 | 32 | 1,321,910 |
France | 22 | 20 | 7 | 65,584,518 |
Belgium | 23 | 23 | 9 | 11,668,278 |
Spain | 24 | 25 | 8 | 46,719,142 |
Malta | 25 | 24 | 444,033 | |
Slovenia | 26 | 27 | 47 | 2,078,034 |
Portugal | 27 | 26 | 22 | 10,140,570 |
South Korea | 28 | 29 | 1 | 51,329,899 |
Israel | 30 | 31 | 21 | 8,922,892 |
Italy | 31 | 30 | 37 | 60,262,770 |
Latvia | 32 | 32 | 48 | 1,848,837 |
Cyprus | 33 | 33 | 76 | 1,223,387 |
Lithuania | 34 | 34 | 31 | 2,661,708 |
Slovakia | 35 | 35 | 54 | 5,460,193 |
Poland | 36 | 36 | 51 | 37,739,785 |
Chile | 37 | 37 | 44 | 19,250,195 |
Costa Rica | 38 | 38 | 50 | 5,182,354 |
Uruguay | 39 | 39 | 39 | 3,496,016 |
Malaysia | 40 | 42 | 34 | 33,181,072 |
Greece | 41 | 41 | 26 | 10,316,637 |
United Arab Emirates | 42 | 40 | 20 | 10,081,785 |
Croatia | 43 | 43 | 42 | 4,059,286 |
Mauritius | 44 | 45 | 1,274,727 | |
Qatar | 45 | 44 | 33 | 2,979,915 |
Hungary | 46 | 46 | 49 | 9,606,259 |
Romania | 47 | 47 | 69 | 19,031,335 |
Bulgaria | 48 | 49 | 67 | 6,844,597 |
Panama | 49 | 48 | 56 | 4,446,964 |
Montenegro | 50 | 51 | 627,950 | |
Seychelles | 51 | 50 | 99,426 | |
Serbia | 52 | 52 | 77 | 8,653,016 |
Georgia | 53 | 53 | 79 | 3,968,738 |
China | 54 | 54 | 46 | 1,448,471,400 |
Armenia | 55 | 63 | 2,971,966 | |
Bahrain | 56 | 58 | 1,783,983 | |
Indonesia | 57 | 61 | 52 | 279,134,505 |
Kuwait | 58 | 60 | 71 | 4,380,326 |
North Macedonia | 59 | 55 | 2,081,304 | |
Trinidad And Tobago | 60 | 59 | 1,406,585 | |
Peru | 61 | 57 | 62 | 33,684,208 |
Kazakhstan | 62 | 66 | 82 | 19,205,043 |
Argentina | 63 | 56 | 27 | 46,010,234 |
Thailand | 64 | 65 | 13 | 70,078,203 |
Jamaica | 65 | 67 | 2,985,094 | |
Oman | 66 | 62 | 5,323,993 | |
Albania | 67 | 64 | 74 | 2,866,374 |
Mexico | 68 | 68 | 29 | 131,562,772 |
Belarus | 69 | 70 | 57 | 9,432,800 |
Brazil | 70 | 69 | 63 | 215,353,593 |
Saudi Arabia | 71 | 72 | 55 | 35,844,909 |
Dominican Republic | 72 | 76 | 72 | 11,056,370 |
Vietnam | 73 | 81 | 66 | 98,953,541 |
Colombia | 74 | 71 | 35 | 51,512,762 |
Russia | 76 | 75 | 58 | 145,805,947 |
Bosnia And Herzegovina | 77 | 73 | 3,249,317 | |
Azerbaijan | 78 | 91 | 86 | 10,300,205 |
Paraguay | 79 | 78 | 7,305,843 | |
Moldova | 80 | 83 | 4,013,171 | |
Suriname | 81 | 79 | 596,831 | |
Botswana | 82 | 80 | 2,441,162 | |
Philippines | 83 | 82 | 38 | 112,508,994 |
Sri Lanka | 84 | 77 | 40 | 21,575,842 |
Mongolia | 85 | 88 | 3,378,078 | |
Jordan | 86 | 86 | 43 | 10,300,869 |
South Africa | 87 | 84 | 53 | 60,756,135 |
Namibia | 88 | 87 | 2,633,874 | |
Ecuador | 89 | 85 | 25 | 18,113,361 |
Kyrgyzstan | 90 | 89 | 6,728,271 | |
Guyana | 91 | 90 | 794,045 | |
Ukraine | 92 | 96 | 81 | 43,192,122 |
El Salvador | 93 | 100 | 6,550,389 | |
Turkey | 94 | 92 | 65 | 85,561,976 |
Belize | 95 | 93 | 412,190 | |
Morocco | 96 | 94 | 83 | 37,772,756 |
Uzbekistan | 97 | 102 | 34,382,084 | |
Tunisia | 99 | 95 | 59 | 12,046,656 |
Ghana | 100 | 97 | 32,395,450 | |
India | 101 | 98 | 19 | 1,406,631,776 |
Guatemala | 102 | 99 | 18,584,039 | |
Cuba | 103 | 105 | 11,305,652 | |
Rwanda | 104 | 103 | 13,600,464 | |
Lebanon | 105 | 104 | 45 | 6,684,849 |
Bolivia | 106 | 106 | 11,992,656 | |
Honduras | 107 | 107 | 10,221,247 | |
Algeria | 108 | 108 | 68 | 45,350,148 |
Turkmenistan | 109 | 113 | 6,201,943 | |
Senegal | 110 | 111 | 17,653,671 | |
Nicaragua | 111 | 109 | 6,779,100 | |
Tajikistan | 112 | 110 | 9,957,464 | |
Kenya | 113 | 112 | 70 | 56,215,221 |
Nepal | 114 | 114 | 61 | 30,225,582 |
Laos | 115 | 115 | 7,481,023 | |
The Gambia | 116 | 117 | 2,558,482 | |
Tanzania | 117 | 121 | 63,298,550 | |
Cambodia | 118 | 120 | 17,168,639 | |
Djibouti | 119 | 122 | 1,016,097 | |
Iran | 120 | 119 | 78 | 86,022,837 |
Egypt | 121 | 124 | 84 | 106,156,692 |
Gabon | 122 | 116 | 2,331,533 | |
Zambia | 123 | 118 | 19,470,234 | |
Ivory Coast | 124 | 129 | 27,742,298 | |
Bangladesh | 125 | 123 | 85 | 167,885,689 |
Benin | 126 | 128 | 12,784,726 | |
Myanmar | 127 | 127 | 55,227,143 | |
Comoros | 128 | 125 | 907,419 | |
Papua New Guinea | 129 | 126 | 9,292,169 | |
Lesotho | 130 | 130 | 2,175,699 | |
Equatorial Guinea | 131 | 132 | 1,496,662 | |
Malawi | 132 | 131 | 20,180,839 | |
Uganda | 133 | 134 | 48,432,863 | |
Eswatini | 134 | 133 | 1,184,817 | |
Burkina Faso | 135 | 135 | 22,102,838 | |
Madagascar | 136 | 138 | 29,178,077 | |
Iraq | 137 | 136 | 87 | 42,164,965 |
Pakistan | 138 | 139 | 88 | 229,488,994 |
Guinea | 139 | 143 | 13,865,691 | |
Togo | 140 | 140 | 8,680,837 | |
Liberia | 141 | 137 | 5,305,117 | |
Mozambique | 142 | 142 | 33,089,461 | |
Zimbabwe | 143 | 141 | 15,331,428 | |
Nigeria | 144 | 146 | 73 | 216,746,934 |
Sierra Leone | 145 | 144 | 8,306,436 | |
Venezuela | 146 | 145 | 89 | 29,266,991 |
Guinea Bissau | 147 | 147 | 2,063,367 | |
Mali | 148 | 150 | 21,473,764 | |
Libya | 149 | 148 | 7,040,745 | |
Ethiopia | 150 | 149 | 120,812,698 | |
Cameroon | 151 | 152 | 27,911,548 | |
Republic of the Congo | 152 | 153 | 5,797,805 | |
Niger | 153 | 151 | 26,083,660 | |
Mauritania | 154 | 156 | 4,901,981 | |
Haiti | 155 | 154 | 11,680,283 | |
Angola | 156 | 155 | 35,027,343 | |
Burundi | 157 | 158 | 12,624,840 | |
Syria | 158 | 157 | 19,364,809 | |
Eritrea | 160 | 160 | 3,662,244 | |
DR Congo | 161 | 162 | 95,240,792 | |
Afghanistan | 162 | 163 | 40,754,388 | |
Somalia | 163 | 161 | 16,841,795 | |
Chad | 164 | 164 | 17,413,580 | |
Yemen | 165 | 166 | 31,154,867 | |
The central African Republic | 166 | 165 | 5,016,678 | |
South Sudan | 167 | 167 | 11,618,511 |