Infrastructure

Hospitals, beds, PHCs, and regional distribution

Total Hospitals

499

289 gov · 155 private

Total Beds

80,072

2.37 per 1,000 pop

Primary Health Centers

2,979

Pharmacies

8,700

community (approx.)

Riyadh and Makkah hold 47% of the Kingdom's hospital beds

All 13 regions · hospitals & beds

Riyadh112

20,900 beds

Makkah93

16,200 beds

Eastern Province80

13,600 beds

Asir42

5,260 beds

Madinah33

5,100 beds

Jizan26

2,810 beds

Qassim25

3,780 beds

Hail17

2,250 beds

Najran16

1,990 beds

Tabuk15

2,940 beds

Northern Borders11

1,490 beds

Al Bahah11

1,350 beds

Al Jawf11

1,402 beds

Totals:499 hospitals80,072 beds289 government155 private2,979 PHCs

The two largest regions concentrate 47% of national bed capacity (37,100 of 79,072 beds), underscoring the access gap that the health-cluster reorganisation aims to close.

Hospitals by Region

Ranked by total count

Bed supply is fairly even (equity index 0.09) — but inverted: remote regions out-supply the population centers

Population-weighted Gini of beds per 1,000 across all 13 regions · 2022 (latest full regional actuals). Northern Borders tops the list while Jizan and Makkah sit at the bottom.

Equity index (0 = equal)

0.09

Best supplied

Northern Borders

3.93 beds / 1,000

Thinnest supply

Jizan

1.77 beds / 1,000 · 2.2× gap to best

A transparent dispersion statistic, not a black-box score: population-weighted Gini over regional beds-per-1,000 (2022 MOH regional beds ÷ census-share regional population). Regional population uses the census distribution applied to the national total, so small regions carry approximation error.

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Data sources: MOH · GASTAT · World Bank · WHO · Last aggregated: May 2026