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Singapore ranked first in world’s healthiest countries list

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As per report, Singapore covered first spot in the series of World’s healthiest countries though India secured 103rd Rank(22.17%).Countries are ranked using data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation

  • To identify the healthiest countries in the world The Bloomberg scales gave each country with a population of 1 million or more a health score and a health-risk score.

Factors for Health score:

  •  Life expectancy from birth and causes of death

Factors for Health Risk:

  • Proportion of young people who smoke, people with high cholesterol and the number of immunisations.

Top Healthy countries:

Singapore

Key points:

  • The UK fell flat to grasp the top 20, ranked 21 with 76.84%, back of Belgium, Ireland and Norway.
  • Swaziland came last with 0.26% whereas Israel was the only Middle Eastern country to make it in the top 10 league.