Armenia has ranked 16th in the latest Global Health Security Index, which is an assessment of global health security capabilities of 195 countries in preparing for the fight against future epidemics and pandemics.

Armenia's healthcare safety score in this index was 61.8, which made the country rank 16th in the world. But this indicator has decreased by 1.4 points after 2019.

The top three countries in the new Global Health Security Index are the USA, Australia and Finland, with 75.9, 71.1 and 70.9 points, respectively.

Armenia received 79.3 points for capacity to prevent pandemics, which is 4.3 points higher than in 2019. With this indicator, Armenia is ranked 12th in the world.

And Armenia received 100 out of 100 possible points for immunization programs against known infectious diseases.

The country received 69.6 points for capacity in epidemic and pandemic risk detection, which is 1.7 points higher than in 2019.

However, Armenia received only 56.3 points for its work on responding to the epidemic and pandemic risk, which is 16.3 points lower than in 2019.

Risk assessments were also very low. In particular, Armenia received only 38.9 out of 100 points in terms of political and security risks, which is 8.1 points lower than in 2019. With this indicator, Armenia ranks 154th among 195 countries.