Countries with the best healthcare systems: UPDATED

Can you name the 50 countries with the world's best healthcare systems, according to an authoritative 2015 study?
Source is Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and published in the Lancet
One of the answers (Bermuda - there, you've got one for free!) is not a sovereign nation
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Rank
Country
1
Andorra
2
Iceland
3
Switzerland
4
Sweden
5
Norway
6
Australia
7
Finland
8
Spain
9
Netherlands
10
Luxembourg
11
Japan
12
Italy
13
Ireland
14
Austria
15
France
16
Belgium
17
Canada
18
Slovenia
19
Greece
20
Germany
21
Singapore
22
New Zealand
23
South Korea
24
Denmark
25
Israel
Rank
Country
26
Cyprus
27
Qatar
28
Malta
29
Czech Republic
30
United Kingdom
31
Portugal
32
Kuwait
33
Croatia
34
Estonia
35
United States
36
Montenegro
37
Lebanon
38
Hungary
39
Poland
40
Saudi Arabia
41
Bermuda
42
Bahrain
43
Slovakia
44
Latvia
45
Taiwan
46
Lithuania
47
North Macedonia
48
Chile
49
Serbia
50
Romania
17 Comments
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Level 66
Aug 13, 2018
Your source doc link doesn't work.
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Level 84
Aug 13, 2018
Thanks for pointing it out. Have corrected the link and resubmitted, but in the meantime the correct source is here
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Level 84
Aug 14, 2018
Link at top now correct.
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Level 52
Aug 14, 2018
I think you should consider looking for a more recent source than a 1997 study. I'm a little doubtfull about Greece still having a better health system than Iceland...
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Level 84
Aug 14, 2018
You're right. To be honest I didn't notice it was as old as that. Working on it...
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Level 84
Aug 14, 2018
Okay, updated version submitted, with an entirely different data set, from 2015. Different methodology (better in some ways, I think), so not comparing like with like, but yes, Iceland comes higher than Greece.
+7
Level 76
Aug 16, 2018
Bermuda isn't a country.
+5
Level 63
Mar 22, 2020
Bermuda?
+6
Level 80
Apr 9, 2020
Bermuda not country
+1
Level 66
May 31, 2025
WHERE’S AMERICA AT THE #1 SPOT RAHH 🦅🇺🇸💯
+2
Level 34
May 31, 2025
I am surprised the US even made it into the top 50
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Level 48
May 31, 2025
Got everything but Bermuda because that's literally not even a country...
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Level 30
May 31, 2025
1. Bermuda's not a country.

2. The country is North Macedonia, not Macedonia. At the very least you should be accepting responses of North Macedonia.

3. Tried KSA for Saudi Arabia, didn't work. Thought KSA was standard for Jetpunk

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Level 72
May 31, 2025
Surprised our country(ROK) is so low on the list. Thought our medical service cost is very cheap.
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Level 84
May 31, 2025
Just caught up with comments.

- Caveat now gives Bermuda, and it comes up automatically when UK is guessed.

- Macedonia corrected to North Macedonia.

- KSA now allowed as type-in for Saudi.

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Level 88
May 31, 2025
A top 50 list devolves into a name all the OECD countries. A top 20 would make it more difficult
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Level 84
Jun 1, 2025
True. Although it's interesting to see which countries come where in the top 50