Countries With the Highest Health Scores

Every country with a figure for health score, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Monaco (1.09), Japan (0.971) and Switzerland (0.82). The middle country of the 193 has 0.0532.

What this measures

Health score, in typical gaps (standard deviations). Source: PlaceStats. For this measure, higher is better.

The average of 23 measures from 2 publishers. Each measure is first put on a common scale: 0 is the average country in an average year, and 1 is a typical gap between countries (a standard deviation). Each is turned so that higher is better. Measures are averaged within each publisher first, so a publisher with many measures does not count for more. Members: Anaemia in women, HIV prevalence, Under-5 mortality, Premature NCD mortality, Basic water access, DTP3 immunisation, Physicians, Tobacco use, Basic sanitation, Skilled birth attendance, Maternal mortality, Child stunting, Suicide rate, Road traffic deaths, Tuberculosis incidence, Out-of-pocket health spending, Undernourishment, Food insecurity, Adolescent fertility, Infant mortality, Life expectancy, Adult obesity, Health coverage index.

A standard deviation is a typical gap between places.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2021–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on health score

• Countries With the Lowest Health Scores
• Health score by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Highest Life Expectancy
• Countries With the Highest Infant Mortality
• Countries With the Highest Under-5 Mortality
• Countries With the Highest Health Spending
• Countries With the Highest Suicide Rates
• Countries With the Highest Hospital Beds
• Countries With the Highest Basic Water Access
• Countries With the Highest Basic Sanitation

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.