The World’s Healthiest Countries

The World’s Healthiest Countries

Question: In the list of world’s healthiest countries released by Bloomberg, India ranks at-

(a) 55
(b) 103
(c) 133
(d) 44

Ans (b)

Related facts:

  • In August 2015 Bloomberg released the list of world’s healthiest countries.
  • The list ranked the countries with the help of the data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation.
  • In this list Singapore has been declared as the world’s healthiest country.
  • The top five countries and their scores are: Singapore (89.45%), Italy (89.07%), Australia (88.33%), Switzerland (88.29%) and Japan (86.83%).
  • The last five countries and their scores are: Swaziland (0.26%), Lesotho (0.37%), Congo Republic (0.92%), Chad (1.01%) and Mozambique (1.42%).
  • India secured 103rd Rank(22.17%).
  • Position of india’s neighbouring countries and their scores are: Nepal 89th place (33.43%), Bangladesh 94th (29.39%), Sri Lanka 56th (52.85%), Pakistan 100th (24.90%), China 55th (53.55%).

Reference:

http://images.businessweek.com/bloomberg/pdfs/WORLDS_HEALTHIEST_COUNTRIES_V2.pdf

http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2012-08-13/world-s-healthiest-countries.html#slide20