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Table 3 VS Performance Index by country/territory, most recent year available (post-2005)

From: A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index

Country

Year

VS performance index

Hungary

2012

95.7

Finland

2011

95.6

Estonia

2012

94.6

New Zealand

2009

94.4

Lithuania

2010

93.8

Moldova

2012

93.4

Australia

2011

92.1

Malta

2011

91.5

United Kingdom

2012

91.5

Austria

2011

91.3

Venezuela

2009

91.3

Iceland

2009

91.2

Slovakia

2010

91.2

Canada

2009

91.1

Cuba

2010

91.1

Latvia

2012

90.9

United States

2010

90.9

Chile

2009

90.8

Czech Republic

2012

90.5

Slovenia

2010

90.5

Costa Rica

2011

90.2

Germany

2012

90.0

Sweden

2010

89.4

Croatia

2012

89.3

Trinidad and Tobago

2008

89.3

Ireland

2010

88.9

Serbia

2012

88.9

Israel

2011

88.8

Mexico

2012

88.5

Netherlands

2011

88.5

Spain

2011

88.3

Bahamas

2008

87.8

Denmark

2011

87.8

Norway

2012

87.6

Japan

2011

87.0

Romania

2011

87.0

Mauritius

2011

86.9

Belize

2009

86.8

France

2010

86.7

South Korea

2011

86.6

Luxembourg

2011

86.6

Kyrgyzstan

2010

86.3

Kuwait

2011

85.9

Bermuda

2008

85.8

Puerto Rico

2010

85.2

Belgium

2010

84.9

Poland

2011

84.6

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

2010

84.3

Antigua and Barbuda

2009

83.0

Dominica

2010

82.9

Bulgaria

2012

82.8

Panama

2009

82.7

Brazil

2010

82.6

Colombia

2008

82.5

Cyprus

2011

82.0

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China

2011

82.0

Grenada

2010

81.9

Barbados

2008

81.1

Macedonia, FYR

2010

80.9

Portugal

2011

80.4

Argentina

2010

80.0

Italy

2010

79.1

Nicaragua

2011

78.3

Guatemala

2009

75.6

Malaysia

2008

75.5

El Salvador

2009

74.3

Taiwan

2012

73.2

Egypt

2011

73.0

South Africa

2009

72.6

Russia

2012

71.6

Guyana

2009

70.6

Singapore

2011

70.5†

Greece

2011

69.4

Suriname

2009

69.1

Jamaica

2006

68.8

Paraguay

2010

65.7

Saint Lucia

2008

64.0

Ecuador

2010

63.4

Qatar

2011

63.1

Uruguay

2009

61.7

Bahrain

2009

61.5

Peru

2010

61.0

Thailand

2007

57.2

Iran

2010

55.7

Jordan

2010

54.1

Armenia

2012

53.1

Uzbekistan

2005

53.0

Maldives

2011

52.5

Switzerland

2010

51.6

Georgia

2010

51.4

Turkey

2012

50.6

Dominican Republic

2010

50.2

Ukraine

2011

49.8

Seychelles

2009

47.6

Occupied Palestinian Territory

2009

47.5

Saudi Arabia

2012

45.7

Kazakhstan

2010

44.4

Brunei Darussalam

2011

40.2

Philippines

2008

40.2

Belarus

2009

38.3

Oman

2010

38.1

Sri Lanka

2006

35.6

China

2012

34.2

Montenegro

2009

31.8

Syria

2007

30.2†

Tajikistan

2005

30.0

Fiji

2011

29.6

Azerbaijan

2007

29.3

Algeria

2007

27.6

Bosnia and Herzegovina

2011

23.2

Bolivia

2006

21.7†

Kiribati

2005

18.3*

Mongolia

2010

15.1†

Morocco

2011

12.1

Iraq

2008

11.9

Botswana

2008

8.9†

Andorra

2010

8.4*

Albania

2010

7.7†

Turkmenistan

2006

7.6*

Macao Special Administrative Region of China

2010

7.4*

Bhutan

2009

6.1

India

2008

4.3

Zimbabwe

2007

4.1

Marshall Islands

2006

3.0*

Libya

2008

2.1

Myanmar

2005

1.8*

Ghana

2007

1.4

Gabon

2006

1.3†

Malawi

2007

0.4†

Pakistan

2009

0.1†

Kenya

2005

0.0†

Nigeria

2007

0.0†

Tanzania

2010

0.0†

  1. *All-causes only.
  2. †Index computed without garbage.
  3. The following countries had no data available in 2005–2012: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Federated States of, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia.