Countries With the Lowest Health Coverage Index

Every country with a figure for health coverage index, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Chad (26), Somalia, Fed. Rep. (30) and Papua New Guinea (32). The middle country of the 193 has 72.

What this measures

Universal health coverage service coverage index, in index, 0 to 100. Source: World Health Organization. For this measure, higher is better.

Fourteen "tracer" measures of basic health services, combined by WHO into one index. They include vaccination, care during pregnancy, treatment of tuberculosis and HIV, and hospital beds and staff. Several of those measures are on the site on their own. So a link with any of them is partly the index matching a part of itself.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2023–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on health coverage index

• Countries With the Highest Health Coverage Index
• Health coverage index by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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