{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"is-curative-care-beds-per-100k","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/is-curative-care-beds-per-100k","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/is-curative-care-beds-per-100k/","title":"Iceland Curative Care Hospital Beds per 100,000 (2023)","description":"Iceland curative care hospital beds: 211.3 per 100,000 in 2023, down 4.1% from 2022. Annual series, 2007-2023, Eurostat (HLTH_RS_BDS1).","domain":"health","category":"Health","keywords":["Health","Eurostat","Iceland","2023"],"publisher":"Eurostat","frequency":"Annual","geography":"Iceland","temporal_coverage":"2007/2023","unit":"per 100,000 inhabitants","last_updated":"2026-07-25","last_updated_text":"25 July 2026","data_as_of":"2023","variable_measured":"Iceland Curative Care Hospital Beds per 100,000 Inhabitants","license":"https://apiardata.com/data-license","is_accessible_for_free":true,"sources":[{"name":"Eurostat","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/HLTH_RS_BDS1/default/table"}],"meta":[{"label":"Frequency","value":"Annual"},{"label":"Coverage","value":"2007–2023"},{"label":"Observations","value":"17"},{"label":"Geography","value":"Iceland"},{"label":"Last updated","value":"25 July 2026"}],"kpis":[{"label":"Iceland (2023)","value":"211.3","unit":"per 100,000 inhabitants","trend":{"direction":"down","value":"-4.1% YoY"}},{"label":"YoY Change","value":"-4.1%","unit":"per 100,000 inhabitants"},{"label":"Trend","value":"down","unit":""},{"label":"Series length","value":"17","unit":"years of data"}],"series":[{"key":"value","label":"Iceland Curative Care Hospital Beds per 100,000 Inhabitants"}],"observation_count":17,"observations":[{"period":"2007","value":292.16},{"period":"2008","value":274.52},{"period":"2009","value":266.95},{"period":"2010","value":262.47},{"period":"2011","value":238.94},{"period":"2012","value":243.14},{"period":"2013","value":242.58},{"period":"2014","value":242.3},{"period":"2015","value":242.86},{"period":"2016","value":245.66},{"period":"2017","value":241.46},{"period":"2018","value":231.38},{"period":"2019","value":227.7},{"period":"2020","value":231.67},{"period":"2021","value":226.3},{"period":"2022","value":220.42},{"period":"2023","value":211.32}],"table":{"columns":[{"key":"year","label":"Year"},{"key":"value","label":"per 100,000 inhabitants"},{"key":"yoyChange","label":"YoY Change"}],"rows":[{"year":"2023","value":"211.3","yoyChange":"-4.1%"},{"year":"2022","value":"220.4","yoyChange":"-2.6%"},{"year":"2021","value":"226.3","yoyChange":"-2.3%"},{"year":"2020","value":"231.7","yoyChange":"+1.7%"},{"year":"2019","value":"227.7","yoyChange":"-1.6%"},{"year":"2018","value":"231.4","yoyChange":"-4.2%"},{"year":"2017","value":"241.5","yoyChange":"-1.7%"},{"year":"2016","value":"245.7","yoyChange":"+1.2%"},{"year":"2015","value":"242.9","yoyChange":"+0.2%"},{"year":"2014","value":"242.3","yoyChange":"-0.1%"},{"year":"2013","value":"242.6","yoyChange":"-0.2%"},{"year":"2012","value":"243.1","yoyChange":"+1.8%"},{"year":"2011","value":"238.9","yoyChange":"-9.0%"},{"year":"2010","value":"262.5","yoyChange":"-1.7%"},{"year":"2009","value":"266.9","yoyChange":"-2.8%"},{"year":"2008","value":"274.5","yoyChange":"-6.0%"},{"year":"2007","value":"292.2","yoyChange":"n/a"}]},"qa":[{"question":"What does this indicator measure?","answer":"This page tracks curative (acute) care hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants in Iceland, published annually by Eurostat under series HLTH_RS_BDS1. Curative care beds are those intended for patients whose main need is short-term treatment aimed at a cure. The series covers 2007 to 2023, 17 annual observations, and excludes psychiatric, long-term and rehabilitative care beds, which Eurostat reports separately under the same hospital resources framework."},{"question":"What was Iceland's curative care bed rate in 2010?","answer":"262.5 per 100,000 inhabitants, down 1.7% from 2009's 266.9. This figure sits roughly a third of the way through the series' overall decline from the 2007 peak of 292.2 to the 2023 low of 211.3. It falls within Iceland's early post-financial-crisis period, when hospital budgets came under sustained pressure and bed counts began falling faster than in the years immediately before."},{"question":"What's the difference between curative care beds and hospital beds?","answer":"Hospital beds is the broader Eurostat category and includes curative, rehabilitative, long-term and psychiatric care beds combined. Curative care beds is one component of that total, covering only beds for short-term treatment aimed at a cure. The two figures are not interchangeable: a country's total hospital bed count will always run higher than its curative care bed count, and the gap between them depends on how much long-term and psychiatric capacity that country classifies as hospital-based care."},{"question":"What does the Eurostat series code HLTH_RS_BDS1 cover?","answer":"HLTH_RS_BDS1 is Eurostat's hospital beds by type of care dataset, part of its health resources statistics collection. It breaks down total hospital beds into curative, rehabilitative, long-term and psychiatric care functions for European countries, sourced from national health ministries and statistical offices under a harmonised reporting framework. Eurostat typically publishes updates with a lag of several months after the reference year, and this page reflects the most recently published figure for Iceland, 2023."},{"question":"How has Iceland's curative care bed count trended since 2007?","answer":"The count has fallen from 292.2 per 100,000 in 2007 to 211.3 in 2023, a decline of 80.8 beds per 100,000 population. The trend is persistent rather than a single break: the count fell in twelve of the sixteen years between 2008 and 2023, with only 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2020 posting an increase over the prior year. The steepest single-year drop was 9.0% in 2011."},{"question":"Why did the count rise in 2020 instead of continuing to fall?","answer":"2020 posted a 1.7% increase, the only meaningful year-over-year gain since 2016. This coincides with the pandemic response, when curative bed capacity was temporarily protected or expanded across much of Europe to prepare for surge demand. The increase was not sustained: the series resumed its downward trend the following year, falling 2.3% in 2021 and continuing to decline through 2023."},{"question":"Why does Iceland's per-100,000 ratio move more sharply than larger countries'?","answer":"Iceland's population is small, so a modest change in the absolute number of curative care beds produces a larger swing in the per-100,000 ratio than the same absolute change would in a country with tens of millions of residents. This is a general property of per-capita statistics applied to small populations, not specific to healthcare. Analysts comparing Iceland's year-over-year moves against larger EU states should weight the comparison accordingly rather than reading the percentage changes as directly equivalent."}]}