World Bank income group | General | Equipment | Average number of patients | Healthcare providers | ||||||||||||
Beds | Area | Ventilators | Resuscitation | Per day | Per week | Critical care doctors | Nurses | Respiratory therapists | ||||||||
n | m2 | n | Per bed | n | Per bed | n | % beds in use | n | Patients/bed per week | n | # beds per doctor | n | #beds per nurse | n | # beds per therapist | |
HIC | 19.5 | 965.0 | 14.2 | 1.00 | 4.1 | 0.30 | 15.2 | 73.4 | 68.7 | 2.0 | 12.5 | 3.0 | 14.0 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 5.0 |
UMIC | 10.9 | 329.0 | 12.1 | 1.09 | 5.0 | 0.47 | 10.8 | 90.0 | 23.2 | 1.9 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 4.6 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 3.4 |
LMIC+LIC | 9.1 | 166.0 | 6.9 | 0.81 | 4.9 | 0.69 | 7.3 | 80.2 | 20.3 | 1.9 | 7.4 | 1.6 | 4.6 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 2.6 |
HIC, high-income countries; LIC+LMIC, lower income countries and lower-middle income countries; UMIC, upper-middle income countries.