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Around the world, health care systems are working to navigate the most pressing global health challenges with cutting-edge technology and research. But at the world’s top hospitals, leaders know the key to delivering the best care is focusing on patient needs.
Earlier this year, Newsweek partnered with Statista to publish its 2025 ranking of the World’s Best Hospitals. This list includes more than 2,400 hospitals from 30 countries across five continents. Each country was chosen based on several factors, including standard of living and life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.
Hospitals are scored based on peer recommendations from a survey of more than 85,000 medical experts, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics and Statista’s Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) survey, which assesses how hospitals implement patient feedback on their quality of care.
In addition to individual country lists, the Global Top 250 list compiles hospitals from all 30 countries that performed in the top 20 percent in quality metrics and/or patient satisfaction in their respective country. According to Statista, the hospitals on the Global Top 250 List are
Meet the Experts Behind Our World’s Best Hospitals Ranking
