Countries With Universal Healthcare 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Universal Healthcare Index by Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

Universal healthcare is a policy in which 90% of the citizens of a country are automatically covered for their healthcare needs by a government plan. It is designed to ensure the continued longevity of a country’s population by increasing access to high-quality healthcare for rural and destitute communities while reducing the costs of such healthcare through state-sponsored insurance schemes. It is a policy that has allowed society to flourish, as they are unburdened with the concerns of not being able to pay medical bills to acquire life-saving treatment for them or for members of their families.

Nations around the world that have universal healthcare, or even a form of it, often tend to be developed states – that is unsurprising as a country needs to be able to afford such luxuries as universal healthcare. The introduction of universal healthcare worldwide really came into motion following World War Two (1939-1945). Seeing nations like the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and the Eastern Bloc nations all had a form of universal healthcare by 1965.

Countries that have universal healthcare are not necessarily socialist in nature. For instance, the UK has the NHS (the National Health Service) despite being run by multiple conservative governments in the past. The NHS offers healthcare to U.K. citizens completely for free, as most of their facilities are publicly owned by the government. Other countries have payment schemes that help reduce the costs of hospital services, pharmaceutical costs, and doctor’s visits, mostly by offering 60% – 80% of medical fee coverage through state-sponsored insurance programs.

If you would like to learn more about countries with universal healthcare, please refer to the data in the charts.

#	Country	Universal Healthcare Index	Care System Score
1	Canada	89	71.3
2	United Kingdom	88	77.7
3	Australia	87	75.2
4	Iceland	87	81.1
5	South Korea	87	75.1
6	Sweden	87	83.1
7	Switzerland	87	82.4
8	Germany	86	81.1
9	Luxembourg	86	77.6
10	Netherlands	86	77.3
11	New Zealand	86	73.4
12	Norway	86	82.2
13	Singapore	86	68.1
14	Spain	86	72.6
15	Belgium	85	83.8
16	Denmark	85	79.1
17	Japan	85	83.2
18	Monaco	85
19	France	84	80.4
20	Israel	84	73.8
21	Portugal	84	67.8
22	Finland	83	80.9
23	Ireland	83	77.1
24	Italy	83	74.5
25	Thailand	83	65.6
26	United States of America	83	72.7
27	Austria	82	77.1
28	People's Republic of China	82	64.8
29	San Marino	82
30	Malta	81	79.8
31	Chile	80	64.9
32	Cuba	80	77.6
33	Ecuador	80	46.4
34	Slovenia	80	74.4
35	Cyprus	79	64.5
36	Turkey	79	53.8
37	Uruguay	79	74.8
38	Colombia	78	62.2
39	Costa Rica	78	59.6
40	Czech Republic	78	76.8
41	Estonia	78	72.2
42	Greece	78	64.9
43	Peru	78	48.6
44	United Arab Emirates	78	65.6
45	Andorra	77
46	Brunei	77
47	Iran	77	51.2
48	Panama	77	51
49	Slovakia	77	65.8
50	El Salvador	76	49.3
51	Kazakhstan	76	64.6
52	Malaysia	76	61.2
53	Algeria	75	51.3
54	Brazil	75	59.9
55	Russia	75	65.5
56	Barbados	74
57	Belarus	74	73.6
58	Guyana	74	54.6
59	Mexico	74	56.5
60	Poland	74	58.4
61	Qatar	74	66
62	Argentina	73	73.4
63	Croatia	73	71.8
64	Hungary	73	69.4
65	Morocco	73	44.5
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73
67	Saudi Arabia	73	57.7
68	Trinidad and Tobago	73	61.6
69	Turkmenistan	73	62.1
70	Ukraine	73	59.2
71	Antigua and Barbuda	72
72	Latvia	72	68.5
73	Lebanon	72	56
74	Saint Kitts and Nevis	72
75	Saint Lucia	72
76	Bahrain	71	62.1
77	Romania	71	67.4
78	Serbia	71	61.5
79	Uzbekistan	71	65.2
80	Bulgaria	70	65.2
81	Egypt	70	39.6
82	Grenada	70
83	Jamaica	70	48.4
84	Kuwait	70	63.6
85	Kyrgyzstan	70	59.6
86	Lithuania	70	68.2
87	Nicaragua	70	47.3
88	Seychelles	70	72.5
89	The Bahamas	70
90	Tunisia	70	47
91	Venezuela	70	46.6
92	Vietnam	70	53.6
93	Armenia	69	64.5
94	Maldives	69
95	Oman	69	62.1
96	North Korea	68
97	Republic of Macedonia	68	63.8
98	Belize	67	49.9
99	Bolivia	67	37.5
100	Dominica	67
101	Moldova	67	57.2
102	Montenegro	67	61.7
103	South Africa	67	54.9
104	Sri Lanka	67	56.2
105	Suriname	67	55.6
106	Dominican Republic	66	49.5
107	Tajikistan	66	57
108	Azerbaijan	65	56.4
109	Bosnia and Herzegovina	65	51.7
110	Georgia	65	58
111	Mauritius	65	57.6
112	Honduras	63	36.6
113	Mongolia	63	49.5
114	Albania	62	52.4
115	Bhutan	62
116	Marshall Islands	62
117	Namibia	62	49.2
118	Cambodia	61	51.9
119	Fiji	61
120	India	61	43.6
121	Myanmar	61	45.3
122	Paraguay	61	45
123	Jordan	60	58.1
124	Libya	60	54.3
125	São Tomé and Príncipe	60	44.4
126	Indonesia	59	53.1
127	Palau	59
128	Eswatini	58	50.8
129	Guatemala	57	40.2
130	Kenya	56	40.5
131	Syria	56	50.1
132	Iraq	55	42.2
133	Philippines	55	52.6
134	Zambia	55	41.7
135	Zimbabwe	55	43.1
136	Botswana	54	54.5
137	Nauru	54
138	Rwanda	54	58.2
139	East Timor	53
140	Nepal	53	34.8
141	Vanuatu	52
142	Bangladesh	51	39.2
143	Eritrea	50	26.5
144	Laos	50	42.2
145	Solomon Islands	50
146	Uganda	50	39.2
147	Gabon	49	45
148	Senegal	49	37.1
149	Djibouti	48	40.5
150	Federated States of Micronesia	48
151	Lesotho	48	40
152	Malawi	48	44
153	The Gambia	48	40.3
154	Haiti	47	27
155	Mozambique	47	45.7
156	Tanzania	46	38.1
157	Ghana	45	43.4
158	Ivory Coast	45	37.2
159	Pakistan	45	29.7
160	Burundi	44	45.2
161	Cameroon	44	33.9
162	Comoros	44	34.5
163	Nigeria	44	28.9
164	Sudan	44	30.5
165	Togo	44	33.9
166	Yemen	44	28.8
167	Burkina Faso	43	36.9
168	Equatorial Guinea	43	40.6
169	Liberia	42	24.2
170	Mali	42	28.6
171	Mauritania	40	31.1
172	Republic of the Congo	40	36.6
173	Angola	39	27.5
174	Democratic Republic of the Congo	39	34.9
175	Sierra Leone	39	39.1
176	Benin	38	40.9
177	Ethiopia	38	30.3
178	Afghanistan	37	22.4
179	Guinea	37	30.6
180	Guinea-Bissau	37	28.8
181	Niger	37	29.3
182	Madagascar	35	19.7
183	Papua New Guinea	33	38.4
184	Central African Republic	32	21.4
185	South Sudan	32	13.1
186	Chad	28	22.6
187	Somalia	27	18.5

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