ATLAS · HOSPITALS

Where the World’s Hospitals Are

A map of care: 26,541 hospitals across 188 countries, each shown as a single point so the map reads as a density of care— where hospitals cluster, and where they thin out. Every hospital is the same colour on purpose: this isn’t a ranking of big versus small, and it deliberately doesn’t shade anywhere as “lacking”. One important caveat up front: these are the hospitals recorded in open data, and that mapping is uneven between countries — so the counts show where data is good, not a complete or comparable census. Data is from Wikidata (CC0), a snapshot taken 2026-06-22.