Hospital beds per 1000 people or hospital bed density is an indicator for availability of healthcare resources in a country. In China, there are differences in the number of hospital beds in rural and urban areas, and Western counties in China have lower bed density compared to the East and South-eastern parts of the country. By 2009, the number of hospital beds per 1000 people in China was close to the number of average numbers of hospital beds per 1000 people in upper-middle-income countries.
Rahul Karan Reddy is a Senior Research Associate at Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA). He works on domestic Chinese politics and trade, producing data-driven research in the form of reports, dashboards and digital media. He is the author of ‘Islands on the Rocks’, a monograph about the Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute between China and Japan. Rahul was previously a research analyst at the Chennai Center for China Studies (C3S). He is the creator of the India-China Trade dashboard and the Chinese Provincial Development Indicators dashboard. His work has been published in The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, ISDP & Tokyo Review, among others. He can be reached via email at rahulkaran.reddy@gmail.com and @RahulKaranRedd1 on Twitter.
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