What is the most diseased country?

Lesotho. Deemed the unhealthiest country in the world, the CDC reports that the leading causes of death in Lesotho include HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, and diarrheal diseases.
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What is the unhealthiest country in the world?

Samoa. Samoa has one of the highest obesity rates in the world, as 47.3% of the whole country's population was obese in 2016, and 17.78% of all deaths were attributed to obesity that year.
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Which country has the least disease?

Based on our analysis, Iceland is the healthiest nation, while the southern African nation of Lesotho ranks as the least healthy.
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What are the countries that are most affected by disease?

The Leading Cause Of Death In The World's 10 Biggest Countries
  • China – Cerebrovascular Disease. ...
  • India – Ischemic Heart Disease. ...
  • United States – Heart Disease and Cancer. ...
  • Indonesia – Stroke. ...
  • Brazil – Low Back and Neck Pain. ...
  • Pakistan – Ischemic heart disease, Cancer, Lower Respiratory Infections. ...
  • Bangladesh – Cancer.
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What is the most disease in the world?

Heart disease remains the number 1 killer; diabetes and dementia enter the top 10. Heart disease has remained the leading cause of death at the global level for the last 20 years. However, it is now killing more people than ever before.
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Comparison: Most Deadly Diseases



Which disease has no cure?

dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease, stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
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What is the number 1 cause of death in the world?

The world's biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world's total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by more than 2 million to 8.9 million deaths in 2019.
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What country was hit the hardest by Covid?

When we took an initial look at total COVID-19 deaths, our Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecast showed that the countries with the largest epidemics since February 2020 include India, the United States, Brazil, Russia, and Mexico.
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Which is the healthiest country in the world?

Switzerland

In addition to having what many call the world's best health care system, the Swiss also have some of the highest life expectancies (a whopping 84 years). Other key factors include clean water, low crime rates, and high work-life balance.
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What continent has the most diseases?

A World Bank Official, Dr Khama Rogo has described Africa as the most disease prone continent with the largest burden of diseases in the world.
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Which country has the unhealthiest food?

When it comes to unhealthy eating, Saudi Arabia was the WORST COUNTRY in the index.
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What country is the skinniest?

Vietnam is the thinnest country in the world.
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  • Timor-Leste (East Timor) - 3.8% ...
  • India - 3.9% ...
  • Cambodia - 3.9% ...
  • Nepal - 4.1% ...
  • Japan - 4.3% ...
  • Ethiopia - 4.5% ...
  • South Korea - 4.7% ...
  • Eritrea - 5%
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Is America the unhealthiest country?

In fact, according to a survey of the Top 10 Unhealthiest Countries (conducted by Clinic Compare and based on data from the WHO, the CIA World Factbook, and the World Lung Association), the United States tied for 10th place with Lithuania as one of the world's unhealthiest countries, due largely to its obesity epidemic ...
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Which country is most overweight?

The island country of Nauru is the most obese in the world with obesity affecting 61.0% of the adult population, according to the most recent data available from the World Health Organization (WHO) as of Mar. 26, 2020. Vietnam is the least obese country with 2.1% of the population classified as obese.
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Is America the fattest country?

1. Soaring obesity rates make the US the fattest country in the OECD. Overweight and obesity rates have increased steadily since the 1980s in both men and women.
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How unhealthy is the USA?

The U.S. spends more on health care as a share of the economy — nearly twice as much as the average OECD country — yet has the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates among the 11 nations. The U.S. has the highest chronic disease burden and an obesity rate that is two times higher than the OECD average.
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Who is the healthiest race?

Despite a struggling economy and high unemployment, Italians are the world's healthiest people. Ahead of the curve.
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Which country is the fittest?

People in the Netherlands are the most physically active, spending more than 12 hours a week exercising or playing sport. More than half of people (58%) across the 29 countries surveyed want to play more sport. Men spend 90 more minutes (on average) doing physical exercise than women each week.
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What country has no Covid?

North Korea, the largest nation to report zero cases, with a population of 25 million, has instituted a strict lockdown, travel restrictions, and closed its borders, according to The Associated Press.
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Will the vaccine end the pandemic?

“The long answer is that unless 85% of Americans get the vaccine, we are not even going to get close to ending the pandemic.”
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What is the biggest killer of humans in history?

Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people in its 12,000 year existence.
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What is it like when you are dead?

As dying progresses the heart beats less strongly, blood pressure falls, skin cools down and nails become dusky. Internal organs function less as blood pressure drops. There may be periods of restlessness or moments of confusion, or just gradually deepening unconsciousness.
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What causes death in sleep?

Abnormal heart rhythms, called arrhythmias, are the most common cause of sudden death. Deadly arrhythmias include ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which the lower chambers of the heart quiver rather than pump blood (and oxygen) effectively, and ventricular tachycardia, a fast, abnormal heart rate.
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