Hospital beds

Per 100 000 inhabitants

Hospital beds provide information on health care capacities, i.e. on the maximum number of patients who can be treated by hospitals. Total hospital beds are all hospital beds which are regularly maintained and staffed and immediately available for the care of admitted patients; both occupied and unoccupied beds are covered. Hospitals are defined according to the classification of health care providers of the System of Health Accounts (SHA); all public and private hospitals should be covered.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
EU (27 countries)	649.2 ^(p)	640.1 ^(p)	630.2 ^(p)	618.9 ^(p)	603.4 ^(p)	592.6	584.1	573.8	564.6	558.9	550.8	538.2 ^(p)
Belgium	781.4	776.9	765.7	757.5	750.8	747.3	742.5	670.4 ^(b)	663.1	657.4	650.8	644.0
Bulgaria	751.3	743.0	722.1	650.4	630.3	614.7	642.9	621.4	638.1	650.8	661.6	..
Czech Republic	773.6	778.6 ^(b)	775.2	775.9	772.2	763.5	755.3	742.5	730.6	718.7	711.4	701.0
Denmark	438.8	429.4	421.8	428.6	413.3	397.1	385.7	379.1	369.1	357.1	349.4	349.8
Germany	919.4	911.6	901.0	887.3	874.4	857.8	846.7	829.7	823.9	821.4	823.9	824.8
Estonia	753.0	717.6	671.5	607.1	592.3	581.8	547.8	564.8	557.0	571.4	543.8	533.1
Ireland	624.5	613.2	586.0	578.1	567.2	564.1	545.9	527.5	514.6	492.3	327.4 ^(b)	313.9
Greece	472.4	471.7	477.4	471.3	469.6	468.9	472.9	481.7	481.5	477.5	484.8	..
Spain	374.8	367.8	359.4	353.6	345.0	341.7	336.1	331.5	327.2	322.5	318.7	315.7
France	820.1	797.0	782.7	771.3	754.6	739.0	722.5	711.1	706.0	690.3	665.9	642.4
Italy	492.7	470.8	461.3	443.4	415.9	398.6	399.9	393.9	384.5	372.7	362.6	352.5
Cyprus	447.4	453.4	437.3	435.3	426.6	415.7	375.7	370.7	371.9	375.4	380.0	368.0
Latvia	903.3	873.5 ^(b)	820.3	775.8	781.3	773.6	768.4	760.8	757.1	746.1	640.1	532.4
Lithuania	895.3	883.3	830.8	804.0	776.5	743.7	708.8	688.8	688.3	683.7	680.3	675.1
Luxembourg	..	..	..	..	..	639.4	578.5	565.1	566.9	556.8	546.6	536.7
Hungary	824.9	825.4	785.8	785.1	783.5	782.8	785.4	791.7	718.6 ^(b)	710.5	714.4	718.2
Malta	557.3	547.7	756.7 ^(b)	748.3	742.9	745.6	744.6	754.9	780.3	734.3	481.4 ^(b)	450.5
Netherlands	504.0	482.6	465.1 ^(b)	457.1	450.0	447.2	445.5	478.0 ^(b)	474.2	469.9	465.7	..
Austria	808.2	794.8	784.8	780.7	773.3	773.4	768.7	766.2	774.7	767.9	765.9	762.9
Poland	..	..	..	..	667.9	666.8	652.1	647.2	642.4	662.0 ^(b)	665.3	658.5
Portugal	376.2 ^(b)	373.2	367.3	358.4	358.8	358.3	354.3	345.8	341.4	337.1	335.2	334.7 ^(e)
Romania	757.4 ^(b)	769.3	783.4	766.4	674.4	673.7	677.3	674.1	653.9	656.9	662.0	628.5
Slovenia	552.6	540.2	516.3	508.7	495.8	479.9	483.2	476.7	468.3	474.2	460.3	457.2
Slovakia	795.3	785.6	766.9	756.9	723.8	689.8	677.0	671.2	675.3	655.7	650.5	641.8
Finland	760.5	754.1	746.2	735.1	724.3	709.8	705.2	698.4	673.0	656.4	624.5	584.7
Sweden	369.8	358.0	327.4 ^(b)	312.9	305.1	301.2	293.2	288.8	286.4	280.5	275.9	272.6
United Kingdom	..	409.8	403.7	398.1	395.4	386.5	373.4	355.7	340.7	335.5	329.1	295.5 ^(b)
Iceland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	578.4 ^(e)	..	..	..
Norway	388.7	379.7	381.7	431.0 ^(b)	427.0	419.3	404.4	400.9	380.1	351.7	334.8	329.6
Switzerland	660.8	628.7	603.6	594.5	582.4	567.0	553.9	539.1	536.0	521.1	510.4	496.3
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	598.4	603.2	599.3	566.8	561.1	552.6	545.1	545.6	548.6	547.4	537.3	561.9
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	510.3	505.7	493.6	481.0	480.7	477.2	469.8	462.7	456.4	454.6	447.8	459.1
Turkey	..	200.2	205.8	207.6	208.4	216.3	220.3	234.8	242.8	242.3	249.4	251.6

(..) - not available
(p) - provisional
(b) - break in time series
(e) - estimated

Source: Eurostat