GeoRealityMatch

Care you can afford

5 countries pair a health care score of 70 or more with a cost of living of 40 or lower

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.

  • Rated well, costs less
  • The highest rated
  • Rated lowest
  • Every other country
Rated well, costs less: 530507090205080110Cost of living (New York = 100), cheaper to the right →↑ Rated higher · Health care index (survey)EcuadorTaiwanSyriaThailandSouth KoreaVenezuelaTurkeyNetherlandsBangladesh

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

Top-right corner

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.

Top of the scale

The highest rated

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

Rated lowest

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.

103 countries not plotted, and why

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:

  • Afghanistan (no health care figure)
  • Andorra (no health care figure)
  • Angola (no health care figure)
  • Antigua and Barbuda (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Aruba (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Bahamas (no health care figure)
  • Bahrain (no health care figure)
  • Barbados (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Belize (no health care figure)
  • Benin (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Bhutan (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Bolivia (no health care figure)
  • Botswana (no health care figure)
  • Brunei (no health care figure)
  • Burkina Faso (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Burundi (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Cameroon (no health care figure)
  • Cape Verde (no health care figure)
  • Central African Republic (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Chad (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Comoros (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Cuba (no health care figure)
  • Djibouti (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Dominica (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • DR Congo (no health care figure)
  • El Salvador (no health care figure)
  • Equatorial Guinea (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Eritrea (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Eswatini (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Ethiopia (no health care figure)
  • Fiji (no health care figure)
  • French Guiana (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • New Caledonia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • French Polynesia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Greenland (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Gabon (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Gambia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Grenada (no health care figure)
  • Guinea (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Guinea-Bissau (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Guyana (no health care figure)
  • Haiti (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Honduras (no health care figure)
  • Ivory Coast (no health care figure)
  • Jamaica (no health care figure)
  • Kiribati (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Kyrgyzstan (no health care figure)
  • Laos (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Lesotho (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Liberia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Libya (no health care figure)
  • Liechtenstein (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Madagascar (no health care figure)
  • Malawi (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Maldives (no health care figure)
  • Mali (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Marshall Islands (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Mauritania (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Mauritius (no health care figure)
  • Micronesia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Monaco (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Mongolia (no health care figure)
  • Mozambique (no health care figure)
  • Myanmar (no health care figure)
  • Namibia (no health care figure)
  • Nauru (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Nicaragua (no health care figure)
  • Niger (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • North Korea (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Palau (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Puerto Rico (no health care figure)
  • Papua New Guinea (no health care figure)
  • Paraguay (no health care figure)
  • Republic of the Congo (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Curaçao (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Rwanda (no health care figure)
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Saint Lucia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Samoa (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • San Marino (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • São Tomé and Príncipe (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Senegal (no health care figure)
  • Seychelles (no health care figure)
  • Sierra Leone (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Solomon Islands (no health care figure)
  • Somalia (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • South Sudan (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Sudan (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Suriname (no health care figure)
  • Tajikistan (no health care figure)
  • Tanzania (no health care figure)
  • Timor-Leste (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Togo (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Tonga (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Turkmenistan (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Tuvalu (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Uganda (no health care figure)
  • Uzbekistan (no health care figure)
  • Vanuatu (no cost-of-living figure and no health care figure)
  • Yemen (no health care figure)
  • Zambia (no health care figure)
  • Zimbabwe (no health care figure)

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 →