Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

Indicator id: hospital_beds_per_1000 · Unit: per 1,000 people · Coverage: 2023-2023

Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general and specialised hospitals and rehabilitation centres; in most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.

Sources

• Our World in Data (preferred) -- dataset hospital-beds-per-1000-people, code sh_med_beds_zs (https://ourworldindata.org)

Caveats

New for this crosswalk pass: not currently ingested from World Bank directly (SH.MED.BEDS.ZS has zero rows in the warehouse), so this indicator has a single source and no cross-check. OWID's snapshot is a single 2023 cross-section for Nepal (0.54 beds per 1,000), not an annual series -- treat as a current-state figure, not a trend. A distinct concept from physicians_per_1000: this measures inpatient bed capacity, not clinical staffing.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 3.8 -- Achieve universal health coverage
Topic: Health
Themes: health

Also known as

"hospital beds", "hospital capacity", "beds per 1000", "how many hospital beds does Nepal have"

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