Hospital discharges: 8,723,602 (2024)

8,723,602 (hospital discharges, 2024). FALLBACK SOURCE - no MOHW or HIRA national admissions total could be loaded (HIRA's utilisation statistics are served through interactive OLAP views and the 공공데이터포털 bulk files). OECD counts discharges from all hospitals, which for Korea includes the very large 요양병원 long-term-care sector; discharges from long-stay beds inflate the count relative to acute-only measures. Korea's discharge rate is the second highest among these markets after Japan.

Supporting location REF_AREA=KOR, DIAGNOSTIC_TYPE='DICDA000: All causes', SEX='_T: Total', UNIT_MEASURE='DSC: Discharges', TIME_PERIOD=2024 (16,856.9 per 100,000 persons; 2023 = 8,865,004)

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