There’s a new ranking of the healthiest countries. How is yours doing?

There’s a new ranking of the healthiest countries. How is yours doing?

Iceland tops a new ranking of the world’s healthiest countries, in a vast new study.

Image: REUTERS/David Gray

Published in The Lancet, the study  33 health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators in 188 countries across 25 years.

The healthiest countries

One year into the SDGs, the results present a global picture of the progress made on the Millennium Development Goals, and the work still needed to achieve the Global Goals.

Using the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2015, the research examines health in countries around the world to create a global ranking. The indicators are ranked from 0-100, with 0 being the worst, and 100 the best.

To explain some of their findings and methods, the study’s authors created an infographic, the full version of which is available here..

 2015 Snapshot: Highest, median and lowest SDG index scores for 2015 Image: The Lancet

Iceland, Sweden and Singapore top the ranking, with overall scores of 85 out of 100.

Iceland just takes top spot – by one decimal place. The report singles out the country’s tobacco control measures, and its publicly funded healthcare as major factors in its number one position. The top five is completed by Andorra and the UK. The full ranking is available in the report (pdf).

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/there-s-a-new-ranking-of-the-healthiest-countries-how-is-yours-doing

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