Hospital Density Per 100,000 Population By Country

Total density per 100,000 population: Hospitals is a metric from the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory. This dataset provides a standardized measure of hospital availability relative to population size across different countries. The World Health Organization compiles this data to monitor global healthcare infrastructure.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between hospital_density and other WHO health outcome metrics like life_expectancy or disease_mortality.
• Model trends in healthcare_infrastructure over time using the year and country fields.
• Benchmark a specific country's hospital_density against regional or income-group averages.
• Identify countries with outlier values in hospital_density for further case-study research.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative World Health Organization.
• Metric is standardized (per 100,000 population) for cross-country comparison.
• Part of the larger WHO GHO data repository allowing for joined analysis.

Limitations

• Specific row count, time range, and update frequency are unknown.
• Data collection methodologies may vary between member states, affecting consistency.
• The 'hospitals' metric may not account for differences in facility size or service capacity.

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory (GHO)

Collection Method

Compiled from official country reports and statistical questionnaires submitted to WHO.

Geography

Global, with country-level granularity.