Hospital beds in Belgium
Belgium had 534 hospital beds per 100,000 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1988. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
The latest value carries the source flag “Definition differs”.
Belgium, 2025
534d (Definition differs)
Change from 2024
−2per 100,000 people
European Union, 2024
507 per 100,000 people
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2024
423 per 100,000 people
Hospital beds in Belgium over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Beds per 100,000 inhabitants. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Belgium | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 534 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | – |
| 2024 | 536 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | 507 per 100,000 people |
| 2023 | 539 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | 511 per 100,000 people |
| 2022 | 544 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | 517 per 100,000 people |
| 2021 | 549 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | 525 per 100,000 people |
| 2020 | 553 per 100,000 peopled (definition differs (see metadata)) | 528 per 100,000 people |
| 2019 | 557 per 100,000 peoplebd (break in time series, definition differs (see metadata)) | 532 per 100,000 people |
| 2018 | 562 per 100,000 people | 539 per 100,000 people |
| 2017 | 566 per 100,000 people | 543 per 100,000 people |
| 2016 | 576 per 100,000 people | 546 per 100,000 people |
| 2015 | 583 per 100,000 people | 550 per 100,000 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2014 | 585 per 100,000 people | 553 per 100,000 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2013 | 593 per 100,000 people | 557 per 100,000 people |
| 2012 | 599 per 100,000 people | 562 per 100,000 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2011 | 605 per 100,000 people | 567 per 100,000 people |
| 2010 | 610 per 100,000 people | 574 per 100,000 people |
| 2009 | 615 per 100,000 people | 582 per 100,000 people |
| 2008 | 625 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2007 | 627 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2006 | 635 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2005 | 644 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2004 | 648 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2003 | 653 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2002 | 654 per 100,000 people | – |
| 2001 | 662 per 100,000 people | – |
Flags: bd break in time series, definition differs (see metadata); d definition differs (see metadata); e estimated . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of −2 from 536 per 100,000 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 583 per 100,000 people, the figure has changed by −49.
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