page_title: List of countries by hospital beds
hierarchical_section_title: List of countries by hospital beds
caption_attribution_description: English: Hospital beds per 1,000 people, 2013
context_page_description: This is a list of countries by hospital beds per 1000 or 100,000 people, as published by the local governments, international organisation, academic sources or others. The number of beds per people is an important indicator of the health care system of a country. The basic measure focus on all hospital beds, which are variously split and occupied. The classic hospital beds are also called curative beds. For severe patients with risk of organ failure, patients are provided intensive care unit beds or critical care beds.
  Among OECD countries, curative beds' occupancy rate average was 75%, from 94.9% to 61.6%, with half of the OECD's nation between 70% and 80%.
  In 2009, European nations, most of them also part of OECD, had an aggregated total of 2,070,000 acute beds and 73,585 critical care beds or 11.5CCB/100,000 inhabitants. Germany had 29.2, Portugal 4.2.Aging population leads to increased demand for CCB and difficulties to satisfy it, while both quantity of CCB and availability are poorly documented.
  Base capacity for lower-income countries is approximately 0.1 ICU beds per 100,000 citizens.
context_section_description: This is a list of countries by hospital beds per 1000 or 100,000 people, as published by the local governments, international organisation (OECD, E.U.), academic sources or others. The number of beds per people is an important indicator of the health care system of a country. The basic measure focus on all hospital beds, which are variously split and occupied. The classic hospital beds are also called curative beds. For severe patients with risk of organ(s) failure, patients are provided intensive care unit beds (aka ICU bed) or critical care beds (CCB).
  Among OECD countries, curative beds' occupancy rate average was 75%, from 94.9% (Ireland) to 61.6% (Greece), with half of the OECD's nation between 70% and 80%.
  In 2009, European nations, most of them also part of OECD, had an aggregated total of 2,070,000 acute beds and 73,585 (2.8%) critical care beds (CCB) or 11.5CCB/100,000 inhabitants. Germany had 29.2, Portugal 4.2.Aging population leads to increased demand for CCB and difficulties to satisfy it, while both quantity of CCB and availability are poorly documented.
  Base capacity for lower-income countries is approximately 0.1 ICU beds per 100,000 citizens.
caption: Hospital beds per 1000 people in 2013
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