EU: length of inpatient hospital stay in 2019

In 2019, France had the highest average stay of inpatients in hospitals with a value slightly below nine days. Denmark had the lowest average with a value slightly below six days. The difference between the highest and lowest averages was a little above three days.

Average length of stay of hospital inpatients in selected countries in Europe from 2019

Characteristic	In days
Denmark	5.7
Spain	7.24
Switzerland	8.16
Austria	8.3
France	8.77

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Release date

July 2021

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

Non-expenditure health care data provide information on institutions providing health care in countries, on resources used and on output produced in the framework of health care provision.

An in-patient is a patient who is formally admitted (or 'hospitalized') to an institution for treatment and/or care and stays for a minimum of one night or more than 24 hours in the hospital or other institution providing in-patient care.
The Data for this statistic was taken from the Eurostat Database with the code HLTH_CO_DISCHLS.

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