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Hospital beds

Hospital beds per 1,000 people. Bank. A stock of beds, not health.

per 1,000 population

The file

Hospital beds per 1,000 people. World Bank.

The indicator

SH.MED.BEDS.ZS. A stock of beds, not Life expectancy at birth.

What the numbers show

More beds is not a longer life. Read with Health expenditure.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Hospital beds”. World Bank Open Data (SH.MED.BEDS.ZS), 1960–2023, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/hospital-beds/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Japan202212.6
Germany20237.6
Czechia20226.5
Poland20226.0
France20225.7
China20235.6
World20213.3
Italy20223.1
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
Spain20232.9
United States20222.7
Brazil20212.5
United Kingdom20222.4
Netherlands20222.4
Sweden20221.9
India20211.6

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