President health score U.S. 2018

This statistic shows the health score of every U.S. president as of 2018 on a scale from 0 to 100, where 1 is the worst and 100 is the best. It was determined that Rutherford B. Hayes was the healthiest U.S. president to date with a score of 86 our of 100.

Health score of U.S. presidents as of 2018

Characteristic	Health score out of 100
Rutherford B. Hayes	86
Barack Obama	84
Harry S. Truman	83
Jimmy Carter	81
John Quincy Adams	79
James K. Polk	79
Andrew Johnson	78
James Buchanan	78
Abraham Lincoln	76
Millard Fillmore	76
Richard Nixon	75
Thomas Jefferson	75
James Garfield	74
John Tyler	72
George Washington	72
Gerald Ford	71
William Henry Harrison	71
Franklin Pierce	69
Martin Van Buren	69
James Monroe	68
William McKinley	68
Average	67
Calvin Coolidge	65
George Bush	64
George W. Bush	64
Zachary Taylor	63
John Adams	62
Benjamin Harrison	62
Franklin D. Roosevelt	62
Bill Clinton	62
Donald Trump	62
Lyndon B. Johnson	61
Chester Arthur	59
Herbert Hoover	59
Ulysses S. Grant	59
Warren G. Harding	58
Theodore Roosevelt	57
Woodrow Wilson	57
Andrew Jackson	56
James Madison	55
John F. Kennedy	55
Dwight D. Eisenhower	54
Ronald Reagan	54
William Taft	43
Grover Cleveland	37

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Release date

February 2018

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United States

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Scores are out of 100, where 100 is the best and 0 is the worst.
Concerning the methodology the source states: "To calculate an overall health score, we rated each president’s diet; exercise; tobacco and alcohol usage; sleep habits; vision, hearing and dental problems and their history of health issues. Scores were totaled on a 100-point scale, with 1-5 ratings for diet and exercise, and points deducted from the total score based on the presence and severity of health problems.
While we took efforts to meticulously research each president’s health and cross reference findings against additional sources for verification, not all data was available for all presidents. In cases where data was not available (e.g. their typical amount of sleep), an average was chosen.
Our study encompassed the adult lifespan of each president and was not limited solely to their years in the White House.
In many cases, the only information regarding a president’s weight was based on estimates. While we tried to validate these figures using primary sources, some of these weight estimates should not be taken as a strict matter of historical record.
Evaluations of mental health and stress were not included due to their subjective nature."

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