Table 2 Selected characteristics, global health security index, and healthcare system indicators in the 24 countries with no reported COVID-19 cases as of 30 March 2020
From: Countries with delayed COVID-19 introduction – characteristics, drivers, gaps, and opportunities
Country | Country characteristics | Health security and healthcare indicators | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Level of development | Vulnerability classification | Global connectedness index (Rank of 169) | Inbound visitor arrivals/Popl. (Year) | Global health security index (rank of 195) | Number per 10 K population | |||
Overall | Detection | Doctors | Nurse/midwives | |||||
AFRO | ||||||||
Botswana | Upper-middle-income | Landlocked developing | 147 | 0.79 (2017) | 139 | 133 | 5.3 | 54 |
Burundi | Low-income | Landlocked developing & Least developed | NA | 0.03 (2017) | 177 | 175 | 1.0 | 8.5 |
Comoros | Low-middle-income | Small island developing & Least developed | 161 | 0.05 (2018) | 160 | 148 | 2.7 | 6.3 |
Lesotho | Low-middle-income | Landlocked developing & Least developed | 145 | 0.53 (2018) | 144 | 160 | 0.69 | 32.6 |
Malawi | Low-income | Landlocked developing & Least developed | NA | 0.05 (2018) | 154 | 146 | 0.36 | 4.4 |
Sao Tome and Principe | Low-middle-income | Small island developing & Least developed | NA | 0.17 (2018) | 192 | 194 | 0.53 | 19.2 |
Sierra Leone | Low-income | Least developed | 99 | 0.01 (2018) | 92 | 72 | 0.25 | 2.2 |
South Sudan | Low-income | Landlocked developing & Least developed | NA | NA | 180 | 166 | 0.15 | 12.2 |
EMRO | ||||||||
Yemen | Low-income | Least developed | 165 | NA | 190 | 179 | 5.3 | 7.9 |
EURO | ||||||||
Tajikistan | Low-income | Landlocked developing | 159 | 0.12 (2018) | 130 | 144 | 21 | 47.5 |
Turkmenistan | Upper-middle-income | Landlocked developing | NA | NA | 135 | 101 | 22.2 | 44.3 |
SEARO | ||||||||
North Korea | Low-income | NA | NA | NA | 193 | 185 | 36.8 | 44.4 |
WPRO | ||||||||
Cook Islands | NA | Small island developing | NA | 9.94 (2018) | 185 | 180 | 14.1 | 67.4 |
Kiribati | Low-middle-income | Small island developing | 166 | 0.08 (2018) | 189 | 189 | 2.0 | 38.3 |
Marshall Islands | NA | Small island developing | 94 | 0.13 (2018) | 191 | 189 | 4.2 | 33.4 |
Micronesia | NA | Small island developing | NA | 0.18 (2018) | 124 | 171 | 1.9 | 20.4 |
Nauru | NA | Small island developing | NA | NA | 182 | 189 | 14.0 | 76.6 |
Niue | NA | Small island developing | NA | 6.00 (2017) | 184 | 189 | 18.7 | 125 |
Palau | NA | Small island developing | 117 | 4.82 (2018) | 179 | 180 | 14.2 | 72.6 |
Samoa | Upper-middle-income | Small island developing | 148 | 0.88 (2018) | 162 | 173 | 3.4 | 24.9 |
Solomon Islands | Low-middle-income | Small island developing | 129 | 0.05 (2018) | 183 | 182 | 1.9 | 21.6 |
Tonga | NA | Small island developing | 107 | 0.72 (2018) | 171 | 167 | 5.4 | 41.6 |
Tuvalu | NA | Small island developing | NA | 0.27 (2018) | 181 | 182 | 9.1 | 42.6 |
Vanuatu | Low-middle-income | Small island developing | 154 | 1.30 (2018) | 165 | 167 | 1.7 | 14.2 |