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Rated well, costs less
5 of the 98 countries score 70 or more on health care with a cost of living of 40 or lower: Ecuador, Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
Care you can afford
Every country with both figures from Numbeo. Up the side, how residents rate the health care where they live. Across, the cost of living, cheaper to the right. The shaded corner is a health care score of 70 or more with a cost of living of 40 or lower, where New York is 100.
Ecuador: a health care score of 77.7 at a cost of living of 30.9, the highest rated in the corner.
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Source: Numbeo Health Care Index, 2026; Numbeo Cost of Living Index, 2026. geo-reality.com
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5 of the 98 countries score 70 or more on health care with a cost of living of 40 or lower: Ecuador, Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
Top of the scale
The 5 highest health care scores belong to Taiwan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Japan and Austria. 3 of them score above 60 on cost of living: South Korea, the Netherlands and Austria.
Bottom of the scale
11 countries score under 50: Syria, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Iraq, Morocco, Montenegro, Egypt, Albania, Nigeria, Azerbaijan and Belarus. The scores come from surveys of Numbeo's visitors. They record how people rate their care. They do not measure health outcomes such as life expectancy.
The chart plots only countries with both figures from the sources below. A missing figure stays missing; we don't fill gaps. Countries without a complete pair:
Sources. Health care: Numbeo Health Care Index, 2026, derived from surveys answered by Numbeo's visitors. Cost of living: Numbeo Cost of Living Index, 2026, which leaves out rent and mortgage payments and sets New York at 100. Numbeo's figures are crowdsourced from its users, so treat small gaps between countries as noise. 98 countries plotted; 103 omitted for missing data. Full methodology →