Statista, a German online platform that specialises in data and information gathering, has ranked Nigeria as the country with the “157th best health system” in the world.

In the platform’s 2023 edition of the report titled Health and Health Systems Ranking of Countries Worldwide in 2023, Singapore was ranked as the country with the best health system in the world. The report also recognised Japan and South Korea as the second and third on the list of countries with the best health care systems in the world.

Other countries that made the report’s top 10 are Taiwan, China, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Nigeria is currently in the 157th position, a step behind Equatorial Guinea and a step ahead of Angola.

Alarmingly, the seven countries that occupy the bottom of the list are all African countries. They are Eswatini, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Lesotho, Chad, South Sudan and Central African Republic.

The report also identified Seychelles as the African country with the best health care system on the list. The East African country is currently 39th on the list. The island country is followed by Algeria and Cape Verde who both occupy the 70th and 73rd positions on the list respectively.

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The United Kingdom and the United States of America are 34th and 69th respectively on the list.

The conclusion was arrived at after certain factors were considered, including the degree at which the countries’ citizens are healthy and have access to the services required to sustain good health.

Other factors are the effectiveness of health systems and facilities that are in place, response time as far as the treatment of illnesses are concerned and the countries’ mortality rate.