Singapore ranked first in world's healthiest countries list while India secured 103rd position

Singapore has been declared as the world's healthiest country in a recent reports with India securing the 103rd position. The list ranked the countries with the help of the data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation.

In order to identify the healthiest countries in the world the Bloomberg Rankings created health score and health risk scores with populations of at least 1 million, reports the Independent.

The ratings were given depending on factors such as birth, mortality rates and cause of death. Health risks are based on factors such as number of young people who smoke, people suffering from high cholesterol and number of immunisation.

Singapore receives an overall grade of 89.45%. Italy is in second place with 89.07%, while Australia comes third with 88.33%.
The rankings are dominated by Asian and European countries. North and South American countries did not feature in the top 20s.
Israel was the only Middle Eastern country to make it in the top 10 league.

The UK also failed to reach the top 20, ranking at number 21 with a score of 76.84% per cent, behind Belgium, Ireland and Norway.
India ranked 103rd with an overall score of 22.17%. Most African nations occupied the latter half of the list with Lesotho, Democratic republic of Congo, Chad and Mozambique falling in the bottom 10.

Swaziland was the at the very bottom of the list with an overall grade of just 0.26 per cent.
The study also pointed towards a global rise in the level of consumption of healthy food like fruits and vegetables, along side an increasing intake of unhealthy junk food.

source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/