Country Foundations

Right to health care

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 25. Not present in the US Constitution.

Constitutions declaring it
105 / 158
US declares it
0%
US practices it
48%

Does declaring it change anything?

Distribution of practiced scores, split by whether the constitution declares the right. If the two distributions look alike, the words on the page are not doing much work on their own.

Constitutions that declare it (105)
0100
Constitutions that are silent (40)
0100

Mean practiced score: 52% where declared, versus 65% where silent.

Country by country

CountryDeclaredPracticed
Afghanistan100%18%
Albania100%67%
Algeria100%64%
Angola100%31%
Armenia100%62%
Azerbaijan100%42%
Bahrain100%78%
Bangladesh100%23%
Belarus100%66%
Belgium100%90%
Benin100%52%
Bhutan100%80%
Bolivia100%46%
Brazil100%60%
Bulgaria100%68%
Burma/Myanmar100%27%
Cambodia100%37%
Cape Verde100%57%
Central African Republic100%18%
Chile100%59%
China100%37%
Colombia100%43%
Comoros100%44%
Croatia100%70%
Cuba100%67%
Dominican Republic100%38%
Ecuador100%40%
Egypt100%35%
El Salvador100%38%
Equatorial Guinea100%34%
Estonia100%88%
Eswatini100%37%
Ethiopia100%37%
Fiji100%48%
Finland100%64%
Gabon100%55%
Georgia100%73%
Greece100%82%
Guatemala100%29%
Guinea100%20%
Guinea-Bissau100%35%
Guyana100%62%
Haiti100%22%
Honduras100%24%
Hungary100%59%
Indonesia100%48%
Iran100%55%
Iraq100%44%
Italy100%79%
Ivory Coast100%37%
Japan100%93%
Kazakhstan100%65%
Kenya100%52%
Kuwait100%82%
Laos100%48%
Latvia100%68%
Libya100%30%
Lithuania100%75%
Madagascar100%22%
Malawi100%31%