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The healthiest nations: Uganda rounds up top 10 unhealthiest countries

Caesar Abangirah by Caesar Abangirah
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Singapore topped the charts of 149 countries

The world’s healthiest and unhealthiest countries have been revealed in a global league table.

Singapore topped the charts of 149 countries followed by Luxembourg, while the bottom 10 consisted solely of African nations, including Uganda, according to the research by the Legatum Institute.

Experts have since warned health improvements are starting to ‘flat-line’ – despite advances in recent decades.

The report, published Wednesday, judged countries on their healthcare systems, level of disease, obesity rates and other measures.

The annual prosperity index breaks down the best and worst places to live around the world for nine categories in total. One category is health.

Australia was the best performing of the major Western countries, ranking 12th, according to the research by the London-based education charity.

It was then followed by New Zealand (17th) Canada (21st), the UK (26th) and the US (35th).

HEALTHIEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

  1. Singapore
  2. Luxembourg
  3. Japan
  4. Switzerland
  5. Qatar
  6. Austria
  7. Sweden
  8. Norway
  9. Hong Kong
  10. United Arab Emirates

Source: The Legatum Prosperity Index 2018 

Japan featured in the top ten healthiest countries, as did Qatar, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Switzerland, Austria, Sweden and Norway all also featured in the top ten.

The quality of life of people globally is rising but the gaps between the best and worst is wider than ever, experts warn, showing huge inequalities in health, finance, politics, education and safety and security.

The US also struggled to do well in the health category, which was its second worst performing area – after safety and security in which it ranked 43rd.

The Central African Republic fared worst, with Chad, Guinea, Madagascar, Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Niger and Uganda in tow.

‘Having risen strongly at the beginning of the last decade, world health is now beginning to flat-line,’ said the report.

‘The long-term trends of rising life expectancy and increased access to basic sanitation continue, particularly noticeable in the Asia-Pacific region.

Katanga slum in Kampala

‘But these effects have been offset by more people reporting health problems and higher reported incidences of sadness and worry.’

The ranking was produced by measuring life and death-related factors like life expectancy, perceptions of health problems, vaccination rates, tuberculosis, obesity and diabetes.

And it also took into account feelings of joy, sadness, and worry, people’s satisfaction with their country’s healthcare, and the quality of sanitation facilities.

LEAST HEALTHY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

  1. Central African Republic
  2. Chad
  3. Guinea
  4. Madagascar
  5. Benin
  6. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  7. Nigeria
  8. Sierra Leone
  9. Niger
  10. Uganda

Source: The Legatum Prosperity Index 2018 

 

Big movers include Zimbabwe, which had the biggest increase in life expectancy, with it rising 15 years in the last decade.

Laos, India and Tajikistan have had the best recent increase in the quality of their healthcare systems.

On the negative side, people in eastern Europe are the least satisfied with their healthcare of anyone in the world.

And nine out of 10 of the world’s most obese nations are all in the Middle East and North Africa.

The other is the US, where 36 per cent of people are dangerously overweight.

Other measures included on the Legatum Prosperity Index were economic quality, business environment, governance, personal freedom, social capital, safety and security, education, health and natural environment.

Each country was ranked by each of these measures – the top three overall were Norway, New Zealand and Finland.

And at the bottom were Afghanistan, Central African Republic and Yemen.

Baroness Philippa Stroud, CEO of the Legatum Institute said: ‘The very good news is that we see prosperity continuing to rise in the world, both over the last year and consistently over the last 11 years.

‘The news is not all good, however.

‘The gap between the highest and lowest prosperity scores is the largest since we began measuring it in 2007, having grown steadily since 2013, when the highest and lowest scores were the closest together.’

 

The original story appeared on https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6438685/Which-healthiest-nations-world.html?ito=email_share_article-factbox#mol-cd9781e0-f328-11e8-aa40-97e215a25333


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