Medical and health institutions
1.107National Bureau of Statistics ↗
million · year-end 2025
Society · healthcare capacity
Healthcare resources in China
Latest domestic totals, detailed health statistics and internationally comparable resource densities remain separate. NBS supplies the 2025 headlines, NHC the 2024 structure, and WDI the cross-country context.
Medical and health institution beds
10.09
million beds · year-end 2025
Physicians and assistant physicians
5.29
million people · year-end 2025
Registered nurses
6.03
million people · year-end 2025
The NBS annual communique is a latest summary; the NHC bulletin is a detailed health-statistics system. Institution, bed and personnel categories need a metric-level bridge before growth rates are defensible, so the two sources remain separate.
Bed structure, 2024
Hospitals held most reported beds
Three bed categories in the NHC detailed bulletin. Their rounded sum can differ slightly from the 10.298 million total and other residual categories.
Source: National Health Commission ↗ · million beds; NHC detailed statisticschinainfigures.com
Domestic resource density, 2024
Beds, nurses and physicians per 1,000 people
All three measures come from the same NHC bulletin. General practitioners were published separately at 4.54 per 10,000 people and are not placed on this axis.
Source: National Health Commission ↗ · Domestic official definitions; not identical to WDI conceptschinainfigures.com
International metric switch
Keep every observation’s actual year
The physician panel has no year covering all eight entities, and nurses and midwives has only one. There is no play control and no interpolation.
Latest available
Healthcare-resource density across eight entities
Every bar label shows the value and reference year. This is not a same-year ranking.
Source: World Bank WDI / WHO ↗ · Latest available; actual years differ; no interpolationchinainfigures.com
Historical observations
Only source observations are plotted
Reporting intervals vary by entity. Lines connect published observations only; missing years are not generated.
Source: World Bank WDI / WHO ↗ · Actual observation years; no interpolation; no unified animationchinainfigures.com
Accessible data table
Latest available values for three WDI metrics
| Entity | Beds / 1,000 | Physicians / 1,000 | Nurses & midwives / 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | 5.630 (2023) | 3.112 (2022) | 3.666 (2022) |
| United States | 2.680 (2022) | 3.681 (2022) | 13.380 (2022) |
| Germany | 7.550 (2023) | 4.534 (2022) | 12.250 (2022) |
| Japan | 12.590 (2022) | 2.649 (2022) | 12.980 (2022) |
| Korea, Rep. | 12.810 (2022) | 2.610 (2022) | 9.086 (2022) |
| India | 1.590 (2021) | 0.723 (2020) | 1.720 (2020) |
| Viet Nam | 2.520 (2017) | 1.107 (2021) | 1.441 (2016) |
| World | 3.294 (2021) | 1.861 (2022) | 3.929 (2022) |
Category boundary
Institutions are not hospitals
Medical and health institutions also include primary-care and professional public-health institutions. Hospitals are one category.
Personnel boundary
Personnel categories cannot be added
Health personnel, technical personnel, physicians and nurses overlap or nest. Adding them double-counts people.
Outcome boundary
Resource density is not healthcare quality
Beds or physicians per 1,000 describe supply scale, not access, efficiency, quality or health outcomes by themselves.
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Healthcare resources local candidate
Added source-separated 2025 NBS headline totals, 2024 NHC detailed statistics and three WDI international density series. Actual years remain visible and no unified animated ranking or interpolation is used.
Related sources: National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China ↗ · World Bank / World Health Organization ↗
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Data downloads and revision timeline added
Added page-level formal-data CSV files, chart-level CSV/PNG/SVG exports and a bilingual revision timeline to all indicator pages.
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