World's Best Hospitals 2025

The scoring is based on 4 pillars to increase the comprehensiveness of the ranking. As different data sources were examined in each country, the calculated scores are only comparable on a national level.

The global top 250 hospitals were determined mainly based on the number of international recommendations received in the survey and their national rank. Additionally, the following metrics were taken into account: Quality metrics excellence & Patient satisfaction excellence – hospitals whose performance in quality metrics and/or patient satisfaction was in the top 20% of the respective country were eligible. PROMs implementation excellence – as with the country rankings, hospitals which meet the grading threshold, were eligible for the PROMs implementation excellence pillar within the international list. New this year is the bibliometric scores: This pillar was incorporated as a proxy for reputation based on metrics tied more closely to research output rather than expert opinion.
Furthermore, Statista’s global board of medical experts is tasked with supporting the continuous development of the methodology.

Medical experts were invited by Statista and Newsweek to participate in an online survey to recommend hospitals on a national and international level. Recommendations for own employer were not allowed.

Data on hospital quality metrics and patient experience from publicly available sources was evaluated as well (pending data availability by country). Additionally, a PROMs implementation survey has been conducted by Statista to assess the PROMs implementation status of hospitals.

For the evaluation, Statista R applies a scoring model. The scores were calculated for each hospital in each of the 4 pillars and weighted as follows: Recommendations from medical experts (35% national, 5% international), patient experience (17.5%), hospital quality metrics (37.5%), PROMs implementation (5%).