Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation

Table 1 A selection of 29 countries with the highest gross household income [2]

Country	GHSI rank	GHS score	Worldometer rank	Deaths per million people	Rank difference
United Kingdom	2	77.9	176	618	174
United States of America	1	83.5	171	359	170
Netherlands	3	75.6	170	354	167
Sweden	7	72.1	173	489	166
Canada	5	75.3	166	218	161
France	11	68.2	172	453	161
Spain	15	65.9	175	580	160
Belgium	19	61.0	178	834	159
Denmark	8	70.4	155	103	147
Ireland	23	59.0	169	346	146
Germany	14	66.0	158	106	144
Finland	10	68.7	149	59	139
Slovenia	12	67.2	143	52	131
Austria	26	58.5	152	76	126
Norway	16	64.6	139	45	123
Luxembourg	67	43.8	162	176	95
Kuwait	59	46.1	150	71	91
Czech Republic	42	52.0	131	31	89
Saudi Arabia	48	49.3	129	30	81
Israel	54	47.3	133	33	79
Republic of Korea	9	70.2	66	5	57
Japan	21	59.8	78	7	57
Australia	4	75.5	59	4	55
Qatar	82	41.2	123	28	41
Bahrain	88	39.4	124	28	36
Singapore	24	58.7	57	4	33
New Zealand	36	54.0	62	4	26
Malta	97	37.3	114	20	17

The rankings are reassigned out of 178, based on the countries in both the GHSI and Worldometer data sets as of 16 June 2020. The table is sorted by the rank difference (Worldometer Rank based on the number of deaths per million people—GHSI)
GHSI Global Health Security Index

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