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Bloomberg ranked countries based on the efficiency of their health-care systems.
Each country was ranked on three criteria: life expectancy (weighted 60%), relative per capita cost of health care (30%); and absolute per capita cost of health care (10%). Countries were scored on each criterion and the scores were weighted and summed to obtain their efficiency scores. Relative cost is health cost per capita as a percentage of GDP per capita. Absolute cost is total health expenditure, which covers preventive and curative health services, family planning, nutrition activities and emergency aid. Included were countries with populations of at least five million, GDP per capita of at least $5,000 and life expectancy of at least 70 years.
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, Hong Kong Department of Health
August 19, 2013
| Rank | Country | Efficiency score | Life expectancy | Health-care cost as a percentage of GDP per capita | Health-care cost per capita |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong t | 92.6 | 83.4 | 3.8% | $1,409 |
| 2 | Singapore t | 81.9 | 81.9 | 4.4% | $2,286 |
| 3 | Japan t | 74.1 | 82.6 | 8.5% | $3,958 |
| 4 | Israel t | 68.7 | 81.8 | 7.8% | $2,426 |
| 5 | Spain t | 68.3 | 82.3 | 10.4% | $3,027 |
| 6 | Italy t | 66.1 | 82.1 | 10.4% | $3,436 |
| 7 | Australia t | 66.0 | 81.8 | 8.9% | $5,939 |
| 8 | South Korea t | 65.1 | 80.9 | 7.2% | $1,616 |
| 9 | Switzerland t | 63.1 | 82.7 | 11.5% | $9,121 |
| 10 | Sweden t | 62.6 | 81.8 | 9.6% | $5,331 |
| 11 | Libya t | 56.8 | 75.0 | 3.8% | $398 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates t | 56.6 | 76.7 | 4.1% | $1,640 |
| 13 | Chile t | 56.2 | 79.0 | 7.0% | $1,075 |
| 14 | United Kingdom t | 55.7 | 80.8 | 9.4% | $3,609 |
| 15 | Mexico t | 54.9 | 76.9 | 6.4% | $620 |
| 16 | Austria t | 54.4 | 81.0 | 11.2% | $5,280 |
| 17 | Canada t | 53.4 | 80.9 | 10.8% | $5,630 |
| 18 | Malaysia t | 52.8 | 74.3 | 3.3% | $346 |
| 19 | France t | 52.3 | 81.7 | 12.5% | $4,952 |
| 20 | Ecuador t | 51.7 | 75.6 | 6.1% | $332 |
| 21 | Poland t | 50.6 | 76.7 | 7.1% | $899 |
| 22 | Thailand t | 50.2 | 74.1 | 3.7% | $202 |
| 23 | Finland t | 49.5 | 80.5 | 9.4% | $4,325 |
| 24 | Czech Republic t | 48.9 | 77.9 | 8.1% | $1,507 |
| 25 | Netherlands t | 48.5 | 81.2 | 13.0% | $5,995 |
| 26 | Venezuela t | 48.3 | 74.3 | 4.3% | $555 |
| 27 | Portugal t | 47.2 | 80.7 | 11.4% | $2,311 |
| 28 | Cuba t | 46.8 | 79.1 | 11.3% | $606 |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia t | 46.0 | 74.1 | 3.6% | $758 |
| 30 | Germany t | 45.5 | 80.7 | 11.7% | $4,875 |
| 30 | Greece t | 45.5 | 80.7 | 13.0% | $2,864 |
| 32 | Argentina t | 45.1 | 75.8 | 7.7% | $892 |
| 33 | Romania t | 44.9 | 74.5 | 6.3% | $500 |
| 34 | Belgium t | 44.5 | 80.5 | 11.4% | $4,962 |
| 35 | Peru t | 43.2 | 74.0 | 4.4% | $289 |
| 36 | Slovakia t | 41.1 | 76.0 | 9.1% | $1,534 |
| 37 | China t | 38.3 | 73.5 | 4.6% | $278 |
| 38 | Denmark t | 38.1 | 79.8 | 11.8% | $6,648 |
| 38 | Hungary t | 38.1 | 74.9 | 8.6% | $1,085 |
| 40 | Algeria t | 37.2 | 73.1 | 4.2% | $225 |
| 41 | Bulgaria t | 37.0 | 74.2 | 7.5% | $522 |
| 42 | Colombia t | 36.2 | 73.6 | 5.6% | $432 |
| 43 | Dominican Republic t | 35.3 | 73.4 | 5.2% | $296 |
| 44 | Turkey t | 33.4 | 73.9 | 6.5% | $696 |
| 45 | Iran t | 31.5 | 73.0 | 5.1% | $346 |
| 46 | United States t | 30.8 | 78.6 | 17.2% | $8,608 |
| 47 | Serbia t | 27.2 | 74.6 | 12.0% | $622 |
| 48 | Brazil t | 17.4 | 73.4 | 9.9% | $1,121 |