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Total number of hospitals in select countries worldwide in 2020
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kessamuelson Kes

Where did they get the data saying Colombia has so many hospitals? Google etc. suggests the number is more like 3000, not 10899


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thomast Thomas T

The underlying source seems to be the OECD: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=30182, probably via this Statista chart, given the matching asterisks (that indicate 2019 data were used at the time of compilation).


I went further down the rabbit hole to OECD's sources, which for Colombia is the Special Registry of Health Service Providers - REPS database, Ministry of Health and Social Protection. I didn't try to find that database because I don't care that much and my Spanish is mediocre, but based on the Google results I also saw, that 10899 number is definitely counting something different than what others are counting. Even the 3k-ish numbers seem to include clinics and ambulance services, not hospitals with inpatient care.

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thomast Thomas T

Whoops forgot to put Statista link: https://www.statista.c...untries-worldwide/</p>