This statistic shows the hospital bed density in China from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, China's hospital bed density amounted to **** beds per thousand inhabitants.

The average for 2020 based on 36 countries was 4.44 hospital beds. The highest value was in South Korea: 12.65 hospital beds and the lowest value was in Mexico: 0.99 hospital beds. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

This statistic shows the number of beds in Chinese hospitals and health centers in 2023, by region, per 1,000 inhabitants. In 2023, approximately **** beds in hospitals and health centers were available for 1,000 inhabitants in Beijing.

Hospital bed density varies significantly across countries, with South Korea and Japan leading the pack at over ** beds per 1,000 population in 2022. This stark contrast becomes apparent when compared to countries like the United States, which reported just **** beds per 1,000 people. These figures highlight the disparities in healthcare infrastructure and capacity among nations, potentially impacting their ability to respond to health crises and provide adequate care. Global trends in hospital bed density While some countries maintain high bed densities, others have experienced declines over time. Canada, for instance, saw its hospital bed rate decrease from **** per 1,000 inhabitants in 1980 to **** in 2022, mirroring trends seen in other developed nations. Similarly, Russia's hospital bed density fell from ** beds per 10,000 inhabitants in 2012 to ** beds per 10,000 in 2023. These reductions may reflect changes in healthcare delivery models and efficiency improvements. Regional variations and healthcare implications Despite having one of the highest bed densities globally, Japan has seen a slight decrease in recent years, from ***** beds per 100,000 inhabitants in 2014 to ******* in 2023. However, Japan still maintains a high capacity, which supports its notably long average hospital stay of **** days in 2022. In contrast, Brazil reported just under *** beds per 1,000 inhabitants in 2022, highlighting the significant disparities that exist between countries and regions in terms of healthcare infrastructure and potential impacts on patient care.

In 2023, there were **** physicians and **** registered nurses serving every 1,000 inhabitants in Chinese urban areas, while the density of healthcare personnel was significantly lower in the countryside. Although China has more than a million healthcare facilities nationwide, structural inequalities between health services in urban and rural areas remain a long-term challenge.

The physicians density in China has been increasing gradually in the past decade. In 2023, China's physicians density had amounted to *** physicians per thousand inhabitants, while the hospital bed density was more than seven beds per thousand population.

BackgroundAs economic growth drives higher demand for health services, equitable health resource allocation becomes crucial to meet diverse healthcare needs. Since China’s reform and opening-up, increased government healthcare investment has not fully resolved regional disparities. Existing studies, often relying on methods other than the concentration index, fail to comprehensively analyze the link between resource inequities and economic factors. This study uses the concentration index and its decomposition to assess regional disparities and identify determinants of inequity, offering practical recommendations for optimizing resource distribution in China and similar developing nations.MethodsThis study analyzed China’s healthcare resource allocation (institutions, beds, and workforce) from 2009 to 2021 using the concentration index to measure equity across socio-economic regions and its decomposition method to identify contributing factors to inequality.ResultsFrom 2009 to 2021, the numbers of institutions per 1,000 people (IPK), beds per 1,000 people (BPK), doctors per 1,000 people (DPK), technicians per 1,000 people (TPK), and nurses per 1,000 people(NPK) in China increased. The concentration index (CI) for IPK remained negative, while BPK’s CI turned negative after 2013. CIs for DPK, TPK, and NPK stayed positive. The CI for IPK’s absolute value rose, while others decreased. Factors like population size (PS), population density(PD), geographical Location(GL), maternal mortality rate(MMR), rate of born-baby weighting less than 2.5 kg (RBWL25), and perinatal mortality rate (PMR) influenced unequal healthcare resource distribution, with PS and RBWL25 favoring developed areas, and PD, GL, and MMR favoring less developed regions. Additionally, urbanization level (UL), Out-of-Pocket (OPP), per capita health expenditures(PCHE), per capita gross domestic product(PCGDP), disposable income of urban residents(DIUR), government health expenditures (GHE), and number of insured(NI) positively impacted resource allocation to developed provinces, with varying effects.ConclusionThis study analyzes 2009–2021 panel data, revealing growth trends and regional disparities in China’s healthcare resource equity, focusing on institutions, beds, and workforce. Need variables (PS, PD, and RBWL25) reduced bed/doctor disparities, while MMR/PMR worsened maternal/nurse inequities. Non-need economic factors concentrated resources in affluent areas despite redistribution efforts. The findings highlight ongoing challenges in equitable distribution and offer crucial policy insights for China and other developing nations.

The average for 2020 based on 27 countries was 3.56 doctors per 1,000 people. The highest value was in Austria: 5.35 doctors per 1,000 people and the lowest value was in Brazil: 2.05 doctors per 1,000 people. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

According to latest figures, the Chinese population decreased by 1.39 million to around 1.408 billion people in 2024. After decades of rapid growth, China arrived at the turning point of its demographic development in 2022, which was earlier than expected. The annual population decrease is estimated to remain at moderate levels until around 2030 but to accelerate thereafter. Population development in China China had for a long time been the country with the largest population worldwide, but according to UN estimates, it has been overtaken by India in 2023. As the population in India is still growing, the country is very likely to remain being home of the largest population on earth in the near future. Due to several mechanisms put into place by the Chinese government as well as changing circumstances in the working and social environment of the Chinese people, population growth has subsided over the past decades, displaying an annual population growth rate of -0.1 percent in 2024. Nevertheless, compared to the world population in total, China held a share of about 17 percent of the overall global population in 2024. China's aging population In terms of demographic developments, the birth control efforts of the Chinese government had considerable effects on the demographic pyramid in China. Upon closer examination of the age distribution, a clear trend of an aging population becomes visible. In order to curb the negative effects of an aging population, the Chinese government abolished the one-child policy in 2015, which had been in effect since 1979, and introduced a three-child policy in May 2021. However, many Chinese parents nowadays are reluctant to have a second or third child, as is the case in most of the developed countries in the world. The number of births in China varied in the years following the abolishment of the one-child policy, but did not increase considerably. Among the reasons most prominent for parents not having more children are the rising living costs and costs for child care, growing work pressure, a growing trend towards self-realization and individualism, and changing social behaviors.

The region of present-day China has historically been the most populous region in the world; however, its population development has fluctuated throughout history. In 2022, China was overtaken as the most populous country in the world, and current projections suggest its population is heading for a rapid decline in the coming decades. Transitions of power lead to mortality The source suggests that conflict, and the diseases brought with it, were the major obstacles to population growth throughout most of the Common Era, particularly during transitions of power between various dynasties and rulers. It estimates that the total population fell by approximately 30 million people during the 14th century due to the impact of Mongol invasions, which inflicted heavy losses on the northern population through conflict, enslavement, food instability, and the introduction of bubonic plague. Between 1850 and 1870, the total population fell once more, by more than 50 million people, through further conflict, famine and disease; the most notable of these was the Taiping Rebellion, although the Miao an Panthay Rebellions, and the Dungan Revolt, also had large death tolls. The third plague pandemic also originated in Yunnan in 1855, which killed approximately two million people in China. 20th and 21st centuries There were additional conflicts at the turn of the 20th century, which had significant geopolitical consequences for China, but did not result in the same high levels of mortality seen previously. It was not until the overlapping Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) and Second World War (1937-1945) where the death tolls reached approximately 10 and 20 million respectively. Additionally, as China attempted to industrialize during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962), economic and agricultural mismanagement resulted in the deaths of tens of millions (possibly as many as 55 million) in less than four years, during the Great Chinese Famine. This mortality is not observable on the given dataset, due to the rapidity of China's demographic transition over the entire period; this saw improvements in healthcare, sanitation, and infrastructure result in sweeping changes across the population. The early 2020s marked some significant milestones in China's demographics, where it was overtaken by India as the world's most populous country, and its population also went into decline. Current projections suggest that China is heading for a "demographic disaster", as its rapidly aging population is placing significant burdens on China's economy, government, and society. In stark contrast to the restrictive "one-child policy" of the past, the government has introduced a series of pro-fertility incentives for couples to have larger families, although the impact of these policies are yet to materialize. If these current projections come true, then China's population may be around half its current size by the end of the century.

The statistic shows the total population of India from 2019 to 2029. In 2023, the estimated total population in India amounted to approximately 1.43 billion people.

Total population in India

India currently has the second-largest population in the world and is projected to overtake top-ranking China within forty years. Its residents comprise more than one-seventh of the entire world’s population, and despite a slowly decreasing fertility rate (which still exceeds the replacement rate and keeps the median age of the population relatively low), an increasing life expectancy adds to an expanding population. In comparison with other countries whose populations are decreasing, such as Japan, India has a relatively small share of aged population, which indicates the probability of lower death rates and higher retention of the existing population.

With a land mass of less than half that of the United States and a population almost four times greater, India has recognized potential problems of its growing population. Government attempts to implement family planning programs have achieved varying degrees of success. Initiatives such as sterilization programs in the 1970s have been blamed for creating general antipathy to family planning, but the combined efforts of various family planning and contraception programs have helped halve fertility rates since the 1960s. The population growth rate has correspondingly shrunk as well, but has not yet reached less than one percent growth per year.

As home to thousands of ethnic groups, hundreds of languages, and numerous religions, a cohesive and broadly-supported effort to reduce population growth is difficult to create. Despite that, India is one country to watch in coming years. It is also a growing economic power; among other measures, its GDP per capita was expected to triple between 2003 and 2013 and was listed as the third-ranked country for its share of the global gross domestic product.