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Population living within 5 km of a health facility

Name: Population living within 5 km of a health facility
Creator: World Health Organization (WHO) / WorldPop (geospatial access modelling)
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, health access, geospatial, clinics, hospitals, distance to care, primary care, SDG3

Share of people living within 5 km of a health facility (estimated from geospatial facility locations and population grids), latest available year.

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) / WorldPop (geospatial access modelling)•173 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

85.0%

Median: 98.7%

Countries Covered

173

with available data

Highest

Canada

100.0%

Lowest

South Sudan

12.4%

Top 5 Countries

1Canada100.0%

2People's Republic of China100.0%

3Croatia100.0%

4Czech Republic100.0%

5Denmark100.0%

By Region

Oceania100.0%(2 countries)

Europe99.7%(32 countries)

North America97.8%(4 countries)

South America97.5%(7 countries)

Asia95.8%(25 countries)

Key Findings

•Many high-income and small-island countries are near universal (≈100%) by this distance metric.
•Large gaps persist in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and conflict-affected countries, where major shares of the population live farther than 5 km from facilities.
•Middle-income countries often show high national coverage yet can still have significant rural pockets of low access not visible in a single national percentage.
•Because it’s distance-based (not travel-time), results can differ from access indicators derived from road networks and terrain.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (12.4%)High (100.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 85.0%)

Oceania (2)

Europe (32)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Asia (25)

Other (94)

Africa (9)

About This Statistic

This statistic estimates what share of a country’s population lives within 5 kilometers of a health facility (such as a clinic, health center, or hospital), using geospatial facility location datasets overlaid with gridded population maps. It’s a practical, everyday measure of physical access to care—especially important in rural areas where distance and travel time can be a major barrier.

The indicator is typically produced by combining national or global facility registries (geocoded points) with high-resolution population surfaces (e.g., WorldPop) and then calculating the population contained inside a 5 km buffer around facilities. While it does not measure quality of care, staffing, or whether facilities are functional, it provides a comparable, map-based proxy for basic geographic accessibility that can reveal large within-country and cross-country gaps.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Canada	100.0%
2	People's Republic of China	100.0%
3	Croatia	100.0%
4	Czech Republic	100.0%
5	Denmark	100.0%
6	Estonia	100.0%
7	Finland	100.0%
8	France	100.0%
9	Germany	100.0%
10	Greece	100.0%
11	Hungary	100.0%
12	Iceland	100.0%
13	Ireland	100.0%
14	Israel	100.0%
15	Italy	100.0%
16	Japan	100.0%
17	South Korea	100.0%
18	Kuwait	100.0%
19	Latvia	100.0%
20	Lithuania	100.0%
21	Luxembourg	100.0%
22	Maldives	100.0%
23	Malta	100.0%
24	Mauritius	100.0%
25	Oman	100.0%
26	Netherlands	100.0%
27	New Zealand	100.0%
28	Norway	100.0%
29	Poland	100.0%
30	Portugal	100.0%
31	Qatar	100.0%
32	Russian Federation	100.0%
33	Saudi Arabia	100.0%
34	Serbia	100.0%
35	Singapore	100.0%
36	Slovakia	100.0%
37	Slovenia	100.0%
38	Spain	100.0%
39	Sweden	100.0%
40	Switzerland	100.0%
41	Trinidad and Tobago	100.0%
42	United Arab Emirates	100.0%
43	United Kingdom	100.0%
44	United States of America	100.0%
45	Uruguay	100.0%
46	Bahrain	100.0%
47	Belgium	100.0%
48	Cayman Islands	99.9%
49	Cyprus	99.9%
50	Faroe Islands	99.9%
51	North Korea	99.9%
52	Suriname	99.9%
53	Australia	99.9%
54	Bahamas	99.9%
55	Belarus	99.8%
56	Chile	99.8%
57	Georgia	99.8%
58	Jordan	99.8%
59	Ukraine	99.8%
60	Andorra	99.8%
61	Lebanon	99.7%
62	New Caledonia	99.7%
63	Botswana	99.7%
64	Cuba	99.6%
65	State of Palestine	99.6%
66	Türkiye	99.6%
67	Afghanistan	99.6%
68	Brazil	99.6%
69	Solomon Islands	99.6%
70	Austria	99.5%
71	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.5%
72	Costa Rica	99.4%
73	Fiji	99.4%
74	The Republic of North Macedonia	99.3%
75	Islamic Republic of Iran	99.2%
76	Malaysia	99.2%
77	Algeria	99.2%
78	Armenia	99.2%
79	Sri Lanka	99.1%
80	Thailand	99.1%
81	Tunisia	99.0%
82	Argentina	99.0%
83	Jamaica	98.9%
84	Mexico	98.9%
85	Romania	98.9%
86	Albania	98.9%
87	Libya	98.7%
88	Kazakhstan	98.6%
89	Indonesia	98.1%
90	Panama	98.1%
91	Morocco	97.9%
92	Iraq	97.8%
93	Philippines	97.7%
94	Egypt	97.6%
95	Brunei Darussalam	97.6%
96	Colombia	97.5%
97	Dominican Republic	97.2%
98	Venezuela	97.2%
99	Paraguay	97.0%
100	Belize	96.8%
101	India	96.5%
102	South Africa	96.3%
103	Cape Verde	96.0%
104	Guyana	95.6%
105	Peru	95.6%
106	Moldova, Republic of	95.4%
107	Kyrgyzstan	95.2%
108	Vietnam	93.8%
109	Uzbekistan	93.5%
110	Bulgaria	93.1%
111	Bhutan	92.7%
112	El Salvador	92.3%
113	Guatemala	92.1%
114	Ecuador	90.8%
115	Nepal	90.5%
116	Syrian Arab Republic	90.1%
117	Mongolia	88.8%
118	Bangladesh	88.6%
119	Honduras	88.4%
120	Turkmenistan	88.1%
121	Tajikistan	86.7%
122	Bolivia	86.4%
123	Pakistan	86.2%
124	Nicaragua	85.6%
125	Namibia	82.0%
126	Haiti	79.8%
127	Cambodia	79.4%
128	Antigua and Barbuda	75.1%
129	Lao People's Democratic Republic	74.8%
130	Myanmar	72.9%
131	Republic of The Gambia	72.0%
132	Ghana	70.6%
133	Djibouti	68.9%
134	Vanuatu	66.5%
135	Timor-Leste	63.2%
136	Republic of the Congo	62.1%
137	Kenya	61.9%
138	Gabon	60.4%
139	Rwanda	59.7%
140	Angola	58.3%
141	Uganda	57.9%
142	Cote d'Ivoire	57.2%
143	Togo	56.6%
144	Nigeria	55.9%
145	Central African Republic	55.7%
146	United Republic of Tanzania	55.1%
147	Burundi	54.8%
148	Zimbabwe	54.2%
149	Benin	53.8%
150	Cameroon	53.0%
151	Senegal	52.8%
152	Malawi	52.4%
153	Madagascar	49.5%
154	Burkina Faso	47.2%
155	Zambia	46.7%
156	Sudan	46.0%
157	Mozambique	44.9%
158	Equatorial Guinea	43.7%
159	Papua New Guinea	43.5%
160	Guinea	42.1%
161	Guinea-Bissau	41.8%
162	Mali	41.3%
163	Yemen	41.0%
164	Liberia	39.6%
165	Ethiopia	38.8%
166	Mauritania	36.7%
167	Sierra Leone	35.2%
168	Democratic Republic of the Congo	34.6%
169	Somalia	34.1%
170	Eritrea	28.2%
171	Niger	26.1%
172	Chad	24.9%
173	South Sudan	12.4%

Showing 173 of 173 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #health access #geospatial #clinics #hospitals #distance to care #primary care #SDG3

Data Source

This data comes from World Health Organization (WHO) / WorldPop (geospatial access modelling) (2022).

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