Press releases: State of Health

State of Health

The measurement of the general state of health of the population takes in a broad array of indicators and sources. Among these, two in particular stand out: perceived or noticed morbidity, which is the self-assessment that the population makes of its state of health and whose data is collected in the "Health Survey", and diagnosed morbidity, which records the diseases/health problems of the population attending a health centre for treatment, reflected in the "Hospital Morbidity" statistics.

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Hospital admissions in the Basque Country increased by 2.1% in 2023 (03/27/2025)

Reference period > 2023

Last update > 03/27/2025

Care hospital admissions in the Basque Country (2023)

248,650

Inter-annual variation (%) (2023)

2.1

Press releases
Hospital admissions in the Basque Country increased by 2.1% in 2023 (03/27/2025)	03/27/2025
Hospital admissions rose by 2.1% in the acute care hospitals of the Basque Country in 2023 (11/29/2024)	11/29/2024
Hospital admissions in the Basque Country increased by 4.1% in 2022 (03/21/2024)	03/21/2024
Hospital admissions rose by 4.3% in the acute care hospitals of the Basque Country in 2022 (11/24/2023)	11/24/2023
In 2021, 83% of hospital admissions in the Basque Country were treated in public hospitals, while in Spain the average figure stood at 72.4% (03/27/2023)	03/27/2023
Admissions to acute care hospitals in the Basque Country increased by 5.8% in 2021 (10/28/2022)	10/28/2022
In 2020 hospitalisations were down in acute care hospitals in the Basque County, but average length and stay and mortality increased (11/30/2021)	11/30/2021
84% of hospital admissions in the Basque Country were treated in public hospitals, almost 11 percentage points more than in Spain as a whole in 2019 (04/29/2021)	04/29/2021
In the Basque Country, the majority of health professionals are women (04/06/2021)	04/06/2021
In the Basque Country, women lead a healthier lifestyle than men, with the exception of physical exercise (02/18/2021)	02/18/2021
Hospital admissions fell slightly in the Basque Country in 2019, the main cause of which were digestive diseases (11/27/2020)	11/27/2020
248,580 hospital admissions were registered in the Basque Country in 2018, up 1.3% (02/27/2020)	02/27/2020
The number of hospital admissions due to respiratory diseases was up 8.8% in the Basque Country in 2018 (11/29/2019)	11/29/2019
83% of hospital admissions in the Basque Country were treated in public hospitals (02/13/2019)	02/13/2019
Acute care hospitals in the Basque Country registered 232,856 admissions in 2017 (01/31/2019)	01/31/2019
Acute care hospitals in the Basque Country registered 242,171 admissions in 2016 (03/14/2018)	03/14/2018
Admissions for respiratory diseases in Basque hospitals increased by 12% in 2015 (11/21/2016)	11/21/2016
The number of admissions to Basque hospitals increased by 2.6% in 2014 (11/10/2015)	11/10/2015
The number of patients discharged from hospitals in the Basque Country increased slightly in 2013 (12/29/2014)	12/29/2014
The life expectancy of Basque women is amongst the highest in Europe (11/18/2014)	11/18/2014
The number patients in Basque hospitals increased by 1.7% in 2011. (12/20/2012)	12/20/2012
42.9% of people admitted to basque hospitals in 2010 were 65 or over (12/01/2011)	12/01/2011
Nervous system and circulatory diseases accounted for most hospital discharges in 2009 (12/22/2010)	12/22/2010
High life expectancies and low mortality rates in the Basque Country compared to Europe and with lower spending on health (10/05/2010)	10/05/2010
42.6% of the people who were admitted to hospital in 2008 were aged 65 or over. (12/17/2009)	12/17/2009
Circulatory diseases were the main cause for hospital admissions among men and pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium among women (12/23/2008)	12/23/2008
Hospital admissions due to respiratory diseases rose by 8.5% in 2007 (12/11/2008)	12/11/2008
Hospital admissions rose by 3.9% in 2006 (11/28/2007)	11/28/2007
Hospital admissions as a result of respiratory diseases rose 11.4% in 2005 (12/19/2006)	12/19/2006
Why do women go into hospital? (05/26/2006)	05/26/2006
Circulatory diseases, the main cause of hospital admissions (04/06/2006)	04/06/2006
Circulatory system diseases were the main causes of hospital admission in the A.C. of the Basque Country in 2004 (12/12/2005)	12/12/2005
The highest number of hospital admissions in the A.C. of the Basque Country in 2003 were due to circulatory system diseases (12/27/2004)	12/27/2004
Over 270,000 people were admitted to hospitals in the A.C. of the Basque Country in 2002 (12/16/2003)	12/16/2003