Hospital beds: global distribution

Hospital beds statistics includes beds in public and private hospitals, specialised hospitals, and rehabilitation centres.
In 2002 there were an estimated 19.6 million hospital beds in the world. China, Japan and the Russian Federation are where the most hospital beds can be found. The most beds per person are found in Monaco, then Switzerland. There is one hospital bed for every 46 people living in Monaco, and one for every 56 people in Switzerland. In Niger there is just over one hospital bed for every 10000 people living there.

The table shows the number of hospital beds (for 10 000 people) in the first and last 10 countries in the rank.