{
 "built": "2026-09-18",
 "scope": "People who leave their own country to be treated, and the machinery around them: the procedures, the hospitals, the prices, the rules, the accreditors and the risks. Inbound and outbound both — the countries people leave are half the subject.",
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  "destination": 53,
  "hub": 41,
  "procedure": 58,
  "facility": 35,
  "pathway": 17,
  "risk": 23,
  "rule": 23,
  "org": 28,
  "person": 6,
  "event": 8,
  "term": 26,
  "dataset": 13,
  "story": 11
 },
 "countries_touched": 56,
 "countries": [
  "AE",
  "AR",
  "AU",
  "BE",
  "BR",
  "CA",
  "CH",
  "CN",
  "CO",
  "CR",
  "CU",
  "CY",
  "CZ",
  "DE",
  "DO",
  "EG",
  "ES",
  "FR",
  "GB",
  "GE",
  "GR",
  "HR",
  "HU",
  "ID",
  "IE",
  "IL",
  "IN",
  "IR",
  "JO",
  "JP",
  "KE",
  "KR",
  "LK",
  "LT",
  "LU",
  "MA",
  "MX",
  "MY",
  "NG",
  "NO",
  "NP",
  "PA",
  "PH",
  "PL",
  "PT",
  "RO",
  "SA",
  "SG",
  "TH",
  "TN",
  "TR",
  "TW",
  "US",
  "VN",
  "XN",
  "ZA"
 ],
 "how_records_are_made": "Hand-written JSON, one per node, each field carrying a provenance tier (cited / harvested / tradition / inference / field). Cited fields name a source in sources.json.",
 "prices": {
  "rows": 244,
  "with_usd": 244,
  "rate_date": "Wed, 16 Sep 2026",
  "kinds": {
   "estimate": 16,
   "list": 68,
   "package": 77,
   "quoted-range": 48,
   "reimbursement": 5,
   "survey": 7,
   "tariff": 23
  },
  "oldest": "2013",
  "newest": "2026-09-17",
  "reading_an_absence": "A procedure with no price here is one nobody has published a figure for where this project could read it. It is not a free procedure and not a rare one."
 },
 "legality": {
  "rows": 151,
  "subjects": 9,
  "countries": 55,
  "reading_an_absence": "A blank cell is 'nobody here has read that law', which is a fact about this project. Statutes change between a reading and a reader."
 },
 "facilities": {
  "written_up": 35,
  "harvested_from_osm": 17520,
  "osm_fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
  "hubs_queried": 29,
  "reading_an_absence": "A hospital missing here is missing from OpenStreetMap on the fetch date, outside the radius queried, or not yet written up.",
  "osm_query": "[out:json][timeout:240]; ( nwr[\"amenity\"=\"hospital\"][\"name\"](around:{r},{lat},{lon}); nwr[\"amenity\"=\"clinic\"][\"name\"](around:{r},{lat},{lon}); nwr[\"amenity\"=\"dentist\"][\"name\"](around:{r},{lat},{lon}); nwr[\"healthcare\"~\"^(hospital|clinic|centre|dentist|fertility_clinic|rehabilitation|laboratory)$\"][\"name\"](around:{r},{lat},{lon}); ); out center tags;"
 },
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  "spend_pc": {
   "code": "SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD",
   "unit": "current US$",
   "countries": 193,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2024
  },
  "spend_gdp": {
   "code": "SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS",
   "unit": "% of GDP",
   "countries": 193,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2024
  },
  "oop": {
   "code": "SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS",
   "unit": "% of current health expenditure",
   "countries": 193,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2024
  },
  "doctors": {
   "code": "SH.MED.PHYS.ZS",
   "unit": "per 1,000 people",
   "countries": 194,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2023
  },
  "nurses": {
   "code": "SH.MED.NUMW.P3",
   "unit": "per 1,000 people",
   "countries": 198,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2023
  },
  "beds": {
   "code": "SH.MED.BEDS.ZS",
   "unit": "per 1,000 people",
   "countries": 177,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2023
  },
  "life": {
   "code": "SP.DYN.LE00.IN",
   "unit": "years",
   "countries": 217,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2024
  },
  "gdp_pc": {
   "code": "NY.GDP.PCAP.CD",
   "unit": "current US$",
   "countries": 214,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2025
  },
  "population": {
   "code": "SP.POP.TOTL",
   "unit": "people",
   "countries": 217,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2025
  },
  "arrivals": {
   "code": "ST.INT.ARVL",
   "unit": "people a year",
   "countries": 199,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2020
  },
  "receipts": {
   "code": "ST.INT.RCPT.CD",
   "unit": "current US$",
   "countries": 185,
   "fetched_at": "2026-09-17",
   "newest_year": 2020
  }
 },
 "images": {
  "count": 0,
  "licences_accepted": [
   "CC0",
   "Public domain",
   "CC BY",
   "CC BY-SA",
   "FAL"
  ]
 },
 "tags": {
  "international-office": 29,
  "interpreter": 14,
  "price-published": 10,
  "no-price-published": 26,
  "package": 9,
  "insurer-direct": 4,
  "public-hospital": 5,
  "university-hospital": 8,
  "chain": 22,
  "listed-company": 8,
  "transplant-programme": 10,
  "paediatric": 2,
  "teaching": 11,
  "outcomes-published": 6,
  "lgbtq-friendly": 0,
  "women-only": 0,
  "faith-based": 4,
  "visa-support": 2,
  "airport-transfer": 0,
  "recovery-hotel": 2,
  "complication-cover": 1,
  "closed": 0
 },
 "recognitions": 70,
 "sources": 785,
 "not_yet": [
  "field observations — no record carries the field tier",
  "most of the world's hospitals; the written-up ones are a sample, not a census",
  "outcome data per unit outside the few registries that publish it",
  "complication and revision rates for work done abroad, which almost nobody counts",
  "prices in most countries, because most hospitals publish none",
  "photographs for most records"
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "cited": "Cited — a named source, linked",
  "harvested": "Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence",
  "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged",
  "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
  "field": "Field — someone stood there"
 }
}