
USA: Hospital beds
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USA |
Hospital beds |
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Latest value | 919,559 |
Year | 2019 |
Measure | hospital beds |
Data availability | 1960 - 2019 |
Average | 1,176,142 |
Min - Max | 894,574 - 1,704,000 |
Source | OECD |
The latest value from 2019 is 919559 hospital beds, a decline from 924107 hospital beds in 2018. In comparison, the world average is 376835 hospital beds, based on data from 39 countries. Historically, the average for the USA from 1960 to 2019 is 1176142 hospital beds. The minimum value, 894574 hospital beds, was reached in 2016 while the maximum of 1704000 hospital beds was recorded in 1965.
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Definition: The total number of hospital beds in the country.
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Hospital beds | 919,559 | 2019 | hospital beds |
Hospital beds per 1,000 people | 2.80 | 2019 | hospital beds |
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Doctors per 1,000 people | 2.64 | 2019 | doctors per 1,000 people |
Physiotherapists per 1,000 people | 0.67 | 2020 | physiotherapists per 1,000 people |
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Magnetic resonance imaging units | 37.99 | 2021 | MRI units per million people |
Mammographs | 70.72 | 2021 | mammographs per million people |