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How many hospital beds are there?

Hospital beds, 158 countries & territories. Hospital beds per 1,000 people: inpatient beds in public, private, general and specialised hospitals and rehabilitation centres (WHO, OECD and national sources, via World Bank). More beds is not simply better: systems that treat people as outpatients or discharge them sooner need fewer. Reporting is irregular, so each country shows its latest year since 2015.

lowest≥ 0.8 per 1,000≥ 1.3 per 1,000≥ 2 per 1,000≥ 2.7 per 1,000≥ 3.7 per 1,000≥ 5.5 per 1,000 no data
Source: WHO data, supplemented by country data, World… via World Bank· 2015 / 2023

The ranking

  1. 1 South Korea 12.8 per 1,000 2022
  2. 2 North Korea 12.8 per 1,000 2018
  3. 3 Japan 12.6 per 1,000 2022
  4. 4 Belarus 9.8 per 1,000 2023
  5. 5 Mongolia 8.6 per 1,000 2023
  6. 6 Bulgaria 8.2 per 1,000 2023
  7. 7 Germany 7.6 per 1,000 2023
  8. 8 Romania 7.2 per 1,000 2022
  9. 9 Russia 6.8 per 1,000 2023
  10. 10 Austria 6.7 per 1,000 2022
  11. 11 Hungary 6.6 per 1,000 2022
  12. 12 Czechia 6.5 per 1,000 2022
  13. 13 Kazakhstan 6.5 per 1,000 2020
  14. 14 Barbados 6.4 per 1,000 2023
  15. 15 Ukraine 6.1 per 1,000 2022
  16. 16 Poland 6 per 1,000 2022
  17. 17 Serbia 5.8 per 1,000 2022
  18. 18 Lithuania 5.7 per 1,000 2022
  19. 19 France 5.7 per 1,000 2022
  20. 20 China 5.6 per 1,000 2023
  21. 21 Croatia 5.6 per 1,000 2023
  22. 22 Slovakia 5.6 per 1,000 2023
  23. 23 Moldova 5.5 per 1,000 2023
  24. 24 Belgium 5.4 per 1,000 2023
  25. 25 Latvia 5 per 1,000 2023
  26. 26 Haiti 4.9 per 1,000 2023
  27. 27 Uzbekistan 4.9 per 1,000 2023
  28. 28 North Macedonia 4.7 per 1,000 2021
  29. 29 Maldives 4.6 per 1,000 2021
  30. 30 Switzerland 4.4 per 1,000 2023
  31. 31 Cuba 4.3 per 1,000 2023
  32. 32 Greece 4.3 per 1,000 2022
  33. 33 Armenia 4.2 per 1,000 2023
  34. 34 Estonia 4.1 per 1,000 2023
  35. 35 Slovenia 4.1 per 1,000 2022
  36. 36 Malta 4.1 per 1,000 2022
  37. 37 Georgia 4 per 1,000 2023
  38. 38 Tajikistan 4 per 1,000 2023
  39. 39 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4 per 1,000 2023
  40. 40 Dominica 4 per 1,000 2023
  41. 41 Luxembourg 4 per 1,000 2023
  42. 42 Sri Lanka 3.9 per 1,000 2023
  43. 43 Australia 3.8 per 1,000 2016
  44. 44 Montenegro 3.8 per 1,000 2022
  45. 45 Mauritius 3.8 per 1,000 2023
  46. 46 Kyrgyzstan 3.7 per 1,000 2023
  47. 47 Azerbaijan 3.7 per 1,000 2023
  48. 48 Turkmenistan 3.6 per 1,000 2021
  49. 49 Brunei 3.6 per 1,000 2023
  50. 50 Libya 3.5 per 1,000 2022

Reference years differ by country (2015–2023); each row shows its own year.

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