Brazil

Overview

Every country has a weak point. Brazil's happens to be healthcare financing, where catastrophic health spending ranks worse than 94% of the 72 countries on this list. Political institutions and economic policy aren't doing much better, landing at the 88th and 93rd percentiles respectively. Overall, that puts Brazil at #5 — 5th Most Cooked.

Brazil scores 49 out of 100, the global median sits at 27 — so this is 22 points above that line (higher means more cooked). Performance is lopsided: catastrophic health spending ranks worse than 94% of countries, while billionaires hoarded (56 billionaires) is the closest thing to a bright spot — and it still only beats 13% of the field. None of this is really about Brazil specifically — it's about what's propping up the healthcare financing numbers underneath.

Sources: WHO / World Bank SDG 3.8.2 (2024) · V-Dem + Global Peace Index (2025) · World Bank — Gini Index (SI.POV.GINI) (2018–2022)