Cost-of-living rankings · Eurostat PLI 2024

Cheapest Countries for Healthcare

Out-of-pocket healthcare price levels, EU-27 = 100.

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#1 Cheapest healthcare
Romania (+34.2)
Average index
111
Top–bottom spread
199
Countries ranked
30

The verdict

According to Eurostat, Romania has the lowest healthcare index at +34.2 (EU-27 = 100), ahead of Hungary at +43.9; the Top 5 cutoff is 60, with a 199-point spread to Iceland.

+34.2
#1 Romania
+43.9
#2 Hungary
60
Top 5 cutoff
199
Top–bottom spread

Every figure is rendered live from the same Eurostat 2024 ranking query as the table below, no AI summaries, no synthetic statistics.

Top 5 - Cheapest healthcare Horizontal bar chart of the top 5 items by value (index). Top 5 - Cheapest healthcare 1. Romania +34.2 2. Hungary +43.9 3. Bulgaria +44.3 4. Czechia 52 5. Latvia 60 Bar to make this Top 5 = 60 (EU-27 = 100). Full list of 30countries below.

Top 10 - Cheapest healthcare

Cheapest Countries for Healthcare (top 10)

1. 🇷🇴 Romania342. 🇭🇺 Hungary443. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria444. 🇨🇿 Czechia525. 🇱🇻 Latvia606. 🇭🇷 Croatia667. 🇱🇹 Lithuania678. 🇵🇱 Poland689. 🇸🇰 Slovakia7210. 🇬🇷 Greece82

Each value is the price level relative to the EU-27 average of 100. Below 100 is cheaper than the EU norm.

Full ranking, all 30 countries

What this shows: each bar's length is this country's healthcare index relative to the highest value in the table (234); hover or tap a bar for its share of the #1 leader and exact rank.

Rank Country Healthcare index
1 🇷🇴 Romania
+34.2
2 🇭🇺 Hungary
+43.9
3 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
+44.3
4 🇨🇿 Czechia
52
5 🇱🇻 Latvia
60
6 🇭🇷 Croatia
66
7 🇱🇹 Lithuania
67
8 🇵🇱 Poland
68
9 🇸🇰 Slovakia
72
10 🇬🇷 Greece
82
11 🇵🇹 Portugal
87
12 🇪🇪 Estonia
88
13 🇲🇹 Malta
93
14 🇪🇸 Spain
96
15 🇸🇮 Slovenia
98
16 🇫🇷 France
99
17 🇨🇾 Cyprus
100
18 🇩🇪 Germany
112
19 🇮🇹 Italy
117
20 🇧🇪 Belgium
121
21 🇳🇱 Netherlands
140
22 🇩🇰 Denmark
142
23 🇦🇹 Austria
148
24 🇫🇮 Finland
153
25 🇸🇪 Sweden
156
26 🇳🇴 Norway
174
27 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
178
28 🇮🇪 Ireland
179
29 🇨🇭 Switzerland
224
30 🇮🇸 Iceland
234

Wide cheapest healthcare gap: Romania → Iceland

Comparative price levels, EU-27 = 100. Spread from Romania (+34.2) to Iceland (234) is 199 index points - a wide everyday-cost gap. Cross-check affordability on best-value .

Mid-table France (99) is far from both poles, the favourable end is a different cost world from the tail. Open any country profile for the full per-category breakdown.

Affordability companions

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What to do with this ranking

Romania and Iceland anchor the two ends of this cheapest healthcare table -- open either profile for the full per-category breakdown, or compare them side by side.

Rankings reflect national averages, not a personal budget -- a country's largest cities typically run above its national figure.

Source: Eurostat, comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) and median equivalised net income Price-level indices, EU-27 = 100, 2024.

Sources: Eurostat comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) · Eurostat median equivalised net income (ilc_di03) · 2024. Methodology

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