The variability of critical care bed numbers in Europe

Table 2 Data describing numbers of adult acute care, intermediate care and intensive care beds per European country

	Acute care beds^a	Acute care beds/100,000 population	Intermediate care (IMCU) beds	Intensive care (ICU) beds	Critical care beds	ICU and IMCU beds/100,000 population	ICU beds as % of acute care beds	GDP ($million)/ICU beds
Andorra	188	224			6	7.1	3.2	482.2
Austria	48,446	635	569	1,264	1,833	21.8	3.4	205.9
Belgium	50,156	456			1,755	15.9	3.5	266.5
Bulgaria	57,460	766			913	12.2	1.6	52.2
Croatia	15,629	353			650	14.7	4.2	93.6
Cyprus	2,813	350	9	83	92	11.4	3.3	251.9
Czech Republic	91,068	865			1,227	11.6	1.3	156.5
Denmark	17,124	308			372	6.7	2.2	833.0
Estonia	5,096	380	72	124	196	14.6	3.8	98.2
Finland	12,442	231	28	301	329	6.1	2.6	727.0
France	232,821	358	3,471	4,069	7,540	11.6	3.2	339.9
Germany	469,791	575			23,890	29.2	5.1	137.6
Greece	44,411	392	30	650	680	6.0	1.5	449.1
Hungary	41,574	416			1,374	13.8	3.3	94.9
Iceland	1,169	367			29	9.1	2.5	434.3
Ireland	12,202	272	88	201	289	6.5	2.4	716.2
Italy	201,932	333			7,550	12.5	3.7	272.2
Latvia	11,833	531			217	9.7	1.8	110.7
Lithuania	17,061	526			502	15.5	2.9	72.5
Luxembourg	2,511	204	27	100	127	24.8	5.1	432.7
The Netherlands	56,085	337			1,065	6.4	1.9	733.0
Norway	13,639	277			395	8.0	2.9	1,045.5
Poland	156,662	410			2,635	6.9	1.7	178.1
Portugal	31,722	298		451	451	4.2	1.4	508.1
Romania	108,611	507	2,574	2,000	4,574	21.4	4.2	35.3
Slovakia	32,560	599			500	9.2	1.5	174.9
Slovenia	7,656	373			131	6.4	1.7	364.4
Spain	124,194	269			4,479	9.7	3.6	314.8
Sweden	26,131	278			550	5.8	2.1	834.0
Switzerland	28,096	357			866	11.0	3.1	609.6
UK	147,809	237	1,737	2,377	4,114	6.6	2.8	547.0