Health in Serbia

Serbia ranked 65th in the world in life expectancy in 2018 with 73.3 years for men and 78.5 years for women. As of 2018, it had a low infant mortality rate (4.86 per 1,000 live births). As of 2017, it had 2.96 practicing physicians (not including Kosovo) per 1,000 people.^[1]

With 14.55 deaths per 1,000 persons, Serbia is among the world's ten countries with the highest mortality rate.

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative^[2] finds that Serbia is fulfilling 71.3% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.^[3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Serbia achieves 99.4% of what is expected based on its current income.^[3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 91.8% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.^[3] Serbia falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 22.7% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.^[3]