Topic 05 · The health and education network

Where do we have hospitals and schools sized for a population that no longer exists?

Hospital bed occupancy rates, the cost per pupil in small schools and the distribution of medical and teaching staff, compared with actual need on the ground.

Analyses

5 min · updated 15 October 2026Romania has the third-highest number of hospital beds in the EU relative to population, but does not report how occupied they are728 beds per 100,000 inhabitants, 43% above the EU average, a gap that has deepened, not narrowed, over the last decade.