Hospital bed density by country 2021

The countries with the highest density of hospital beds worldwide include Korea, Japan, Russia, and Germany. Japan has around 12.6 hospital beds per 1,000 population. On the other hand, the United States reported just 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 population.

Hospital beds in the U.S.

Both the number of hospitals and the number of hospital beds in the U.S. have decreased in recent years. In 2022, there were an estimated 917 thousand hospital beds in the U.S. The largest proportion of hospitals in the U.S. have 500 or more beds, while the second largest proportion of hospitals had between 100 and 199 beds.

Hospital stays in the U.S.

Despite decreasing hospital bed density since 1975, the number of hospital admissions in the U.S. has increased since then, but has dropped since the COVID pandemic. The number of hospital admission per capita differed from state to state with rates highest in the District of Columbia.