Singapore ranks 13th globally for investments in education & health care, ahead of Japan

SINGAPORE (Sept 25): Singapore has risen 30 places over the last quarter-century to rank 13th among its global peers investing in education and healthcare in 2016, improving majorly from its 1990 ranking of 43rd.

This is according to the first internationally-comparable index of human capital by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, which offers a measure of expected human capital incorporating educational attainment, education quality/learning, functional health status, and survival for 195 countries from 1990-2016.

The index computes expected human capital similarly to life expectancy by applying current age- and sex-specific rates of survival, functional health status, education and learning to each nation’s population born each year.

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