Healthcare Rankings Around the World: African Countries Still at the Bottom

The Lancet has recently ranked the healthcare access in 195 countries in the world based on how they succeed in preventing people from dying from curable diseases. The results are not encouraging for most African countries because they find themselves at the bottom of the list.  The last country is Central African Republic which has been at war with itself for a while now. The report shows that between 1990 to 2015, the highest increases in access to healthcare have happened in countries like South Korea and China rather than in African countries. Access to healthcare and mortality rate should be the number one criterion by which the idea of a rising Africa is measured. This report significantly challenges the notion of a rising Africa. In the table below, most African countries have a failing grade when it comes to treating preventable diseases. Compare it to the countries at the top of the list in the second table.





Source: The Lancet.