In 2023, the average U.S. hospital length of stay (LOS) varied from as high as 6.5 days in the District of Columbia to just 3.3 days in Utah and South Dakota. A lot of factors contribute to a patient's LOS such as comorbidity, staffing levels, and patient mix. Therefore, LOS is not just a measure of hospital efficiency but is complicated by case complexity.

In 2022, the average length of stay in a hospital in Japan for curative inpatient care was 27.3 days. This is a decrease from an average of 32.5 days in the year 2010. On the other hand, inpatients receiving curative care (as opposed to rehabilitative care) stayed on average just 5.6 days in Australia and Sweden.

This statistic shows that the average length of stay in community hospitals across the United States from 1993 to 2020. In 2020, a hospital stay in the United States had an average length of 5.7 days. Between 2007 and 2019, there was almost no change at all in the average length of stay.

Data on hospital admission, average length of stay, outpatient visits, and outpatient surgery in the United States, by type of ownership and size of hospital. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals, Hospital Statistics. Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.

In 2023, a hospital stay of patients requiring long-term nursing care in Japan had an average length of 295.7 days, while patients with common diseases stayed in hospitals for 15.7 days on average. That year, the average length of stay in hospitals of all patients amounted to 26.3 days.

In 2018, the state of Wyoming had the longest average stay in community hospitals, with a patient staying an average of nine days. Utah, on the other hand, had the shortest average length of stay in community hospitals with just 4.4 days.

Hospital stays

The percentage of people in the U.S. with one or more hospitals stays in the past year has gradually decreased over the past couple decades. In 2017, around 6.5 percent of the U.S. population had one or more hospital stays in the past year. Females report more hospital stays than males, and unsurprisingly, those aged 65 years and older are much more likely to be hospitalized than younger people.

Hospitals

Just as the percentage of people in the U.S. who have been hospitalized each year has decreased, so has the number of hospitals. In 1975, there were around 7,156 hospitals in the U.S., compared to 6,146 hospitals in the year 2018. Predictably, the number of available hospital beds in the U.S. has also decreased. In 2018, there were 924,107 hospital beds in the United States.

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The average length of hospitalisation for curative care in Ireland decreased by 0.4 days (-6.25 percent) since the previous year. Find more key insights for the average length of hospitalisation in countries like Italy, Portugal, and United Kingdom.

Average length of stay in days per quarter for inpatients at public metropolitan and country hospitals by quarter by hospital

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The dataset has United States national trends in the number of inpatient stays, average cost per stay (actual and inflation-adjusted), average length of stay, and in-hospital mortality rate from 1994-2019. The trends are stratified by age, sex, expected payer, community-level income, and hospitalization type.

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In 2021, the average length of stay for patients in European hospitals was 7.45 days. With an average of nearly ten days, Hungary had the highest length of stay in Europe, followed by Czechia and Germany. On the other hand, people in the Netherlands stayed just 4.5 days on average in a hospital. This statistic represents the average length of stay in hospital in European countries in 2021 in days.

This dataset contains annual Excel pivot tables that display summaries of the inpatients treated in each hospital. The summary data include discharges, discharge days, average length of stay, age groups, race groups, sex, expected payer, type of care, do not resuscitate orders, admission source, admission type, discharge disposition, principal diagnosis groups, principal procedure groups, and principal external cause of injury/morbidity groups. The data can also be summarized statewide or for a specific hospital county, bed size grouping, and/or type of control.

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The average length of stay in hospitals for inpatient acute care in Italy in 2021 differed for each age group of the patients. According to the data, patients aged 75 years and older spent, on average, roughly 9.5 days for acute care in hospitals, whereas children between one and four years old stayed in hospital approximately five days. This statistic shows the average length of stay in hospitals for inpatient acute care in Italy in 2021, by age group.

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In 2022, inpatients treated for COVID-19 in the United States spent longer in hospital than for other selected diseases, at an average of 6.4 days in hospital. This statistic illustrates the average length of stay in hospital per inpatient case in the United States in 2022, by disease.