Health resources and funding

Spending, public staffing and public acute beds, followed over time. Per-resident figures use the April population. They are not adjusted for age.

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How does Ireland compare with the EU?

Spending, workforce and hospital capacity ranked against reporting EU countries, with the same year used across each comparison. Spending is not purchasing-power adjusted.

Health spending per person

Long-term care spending per person

Practising physicians

Practising nurses

Hospital beds per 100,000

Methodology and disclosures

Current healthcare spending is the CSO System of Health Accounts from 2011. It is not the HSE budget, not capital spending, and not an announced budget. Government financing is the HF.1 scheme. It is not the same as care delivered by public providers.

Euro per resident divides that current total by the April population of the same year. The 2024-price series divides by the all-items consumer price index. Neither is a count of care delivered, and neither is adjusted for age. In 2024, current healthcare spending was 11.3% of Irish modified GNI*. That ratio is not part of the EU comparison.

Staffing is whole-time equivalents at 31 December in HSE and Section 38 services. Acute beds are the published public-acute count. Day-case beds are not included, and the source table does not say the beds were available or staffed.

Definitions and sources: Methodology · Current spending · Workforce