Bulgaria ranks 73rd in a Bloomberg health rating
Bulgaria ranks 73rd with a health grade of 77.48% in Bloomberg’s rating of the state of health of the world’s population.
The world’ healthiest countries are Singapore (with a health grade of 89.45%), Italy (89.07%) and Australia (88.33%), followed by Switzerland (88.29%), Japan (86.83%) and Israel (85.97%). The US ranks 33rd with a health grade of 66.84%, after the Czech Republic (66.96%) and in front of Bosnia and Herzegovina (64.99%). Bulgaria is followed by Serbia and Romania ranks 69th. The healthiest countries in Central and Eastern Europe are Slovenia (25th position) and Swaziland ranks last at the 145th place.
Bloomberg’s ranking is based on data of the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the World Bank. In order to identify the healthiest countries in the world, Bloomberg Rankings created health scores and health-risk scores for countries with a population of at least 1 million.
The health score estimates factors such as life expectancy at birth, infant mortality and mortality in three age groups (up to 14, from 15 to 65 and over 65), considering the main reasons, the number of people over 65, etc.
The risk score takes into account various health risks – the share of people per capita who smoke and drink, of those with high blood pressure, higher levels of cholesterol and blood sugar. Factors such as the share of inoculated people, those infected with HIV, etc. have been considered as well.
Text and photo: klassa.bg
(16.08.2012)