Intensive care bed rates hospitals select countries worldwide 2020

In 2020, Belgium had around 21.3 intensive care beds in hospitals per 100,000 population. This statistic shows rates of intensive care beds in hospitals in select countries worldwide as of 2020. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability of critical care beds has become a major issue across all affected countries.

Rates of adult intensive care beds in hospitals in select countries worldwide as of 2020 or latest year available (per 100,000 population)

Characteristic	Number of beds per 100,000 population
Czech Republic*	43.2
Turkey	39.8
Estonia*	38.1
Germany*	28.2
Austria*	21.8
Lithuania	21.8
United States*	21.6
Luxembourg*	21.3
Belgium	21.3
Denmark*	18.5
Greece*	17.5
France*	16.4
OECD33	14.1
Japan*	13.8
Hungary	13.4
Israel	12.1
Canada*	12.1
Latvia*	11.1
Spain*	10.4
Poland*	10.1
Switzerland*	9.9
Portugal*	8.9
Italy*	8.7
Australia	8.1
Chile*	7.6
United Kingdom*	7.3
Netherlands*	7
Ireland	5.6
Norway*	5.4
Finland*	5.4
Sweden*	5.1
Mexico*	3.5
New Zealand	3.4
Costa Rica	2.9

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November 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

as of 2020

Supplementary notes

* Figures are from 2019 or latest year available.

Figures for Estonia include neonatal and paediatric ICU beds.
Data for the United Kingdom refers only to England.
"ICU beds are classified by the level of care provided to the patient. Commonly, this falls into three levels, with Level 3 providing the most intense monitoring and Level 1 the lowest. The data on ICU beds cover the three levels, except in England (United Kingdom), Latvia and Ireland, which include only critical care beds (Levels 2 and 3)."

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