In a survey of the number of hospital beds per person among OECD countries, Sweden ranks fifth, from the bottom.
A British firm in healthcare insurance has analyzed data from the OECD to see how healthcare is faring in member countries. For Sweden, it doesn’t look bright in terms of hospital beds, According to the William Russell InstituteThis puts Sweden fifth from the bottom in terms of number of hospital beds per person.
Sweden has a total of 21,288 hospital beds. 2.07 beds for every 1,000 people. Only four OECD countries have fewer beds per person. Mexico, which has the lowest number of beds per person, has a total of 123,275 beds, or 0.97 beds per 1,000 people. Better Japan 1,620,040 beds – 12.84 beds per 1,000 people.
Mexico is at the bottom 0.97 hospital beds per 1,000 people.
Costa Rica is 1.10 per 1,000
Colombia is 1.74 per 1,000
Chile 2.03 per 1,000
Sweden 2.07 per 1,000
UK 2.45 per 1,000
Canada 2.52 per 1,000
New Zealand 2.54 per 1,000
Denmark 2.59 per 1,000
Iceland 2.80 per 1,000
Most hospital beds Per capita, Japan has 12.84 beds per 1,000 people.
South Korea is 12.44 per 1,000
Germany 7.91 per 1,000
Austria 7.19 per 1,000
Hungary 6.91 per 1,000
Czech Republic 6.58 per 1,000
6.35 per 1,000 in Lithuania
6.35 per 1,000 in Poland
France 5.48 per 1,000
Slovakia is 5.76 per 1,000
38 member countries of OECD
Australia, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania
Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, Czech Republic, Turkey,
Germany, Hungary, USA, Austria
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