CountsNumbers

What this directory holds, and the shape of what it does not. Every chart on this page has a table under it.

342

records

countries touched

of 220 on the map

244

published prices

dated 2013–2026-09-17

151

legality readings

9 questions

hospitals written up

+17,508 off OpenStreetMap

785

sources

Where the published prices sit

Dearest published price divided by cheapest

Both ends are published prices, not quotes, and they rarely cover the same things — one may exclude the implant and the other include four nights. The ratio is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

The 18 numbers behind this chart

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Coronary artery bypass grafting	108	India $990 → United States $106,385
Panchakarma	41	Sri Lanka $115 → Germany $4,719
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection	28	Czechia $219 → Spain $6,104
Sperm donation	27	United Kingdom $61 → Spain $1,673
Heart valve replacement	27	Australia $1,732 → Ireland $46,443
Hysterectomy	27	Australia $576 → Ireland $15,325
Prostatectomy	22	Australia $1,359 → Thailand $30,456
Spinal fusion	21	Australia $924 → United Kingdom $19,406
Gallbladder removal	21	Australia $548 → Ireland $11,384
Hernia repair	18	Australia $396 → Thailand $7,314
Total hip replacement	16	Australia $1,124 → United Kingdom $17,788
Artificial disc replacement	15	Australia $924 → Thailand $14,074
Knee arthroscopy	14	Australia $567 → Thailand $8,170
Total shoulder replacement	13	Australia $1,285 → United Kingdom $17,181
Full mouth restoration	11	United Kingdom $448 → Hungary $5,042
CAR T-cell therapy	10	India $50,000 → United States $498,723
Egg donation	9.7	United Kingdom $1,327 → Czechia $12,819
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	8.9	Australia $1,124 → United Kingdom $9,971

What a country spends on health, against what it charges a visitor

Each dot is one country. The vertical axis is the median of whatever prices this directory happens to have read there, which is a sample of publications, not of the market. Read it as a picture of this dataset.

The 23 points behind this chart

Median published price on this site, US$	Health spending per person, current US$
AE	2,402	3,268
AU	6,980	1,124
CA	6,378	352
CH	11,784	9,158
CZ	2,693	2,612
DE	6,849	4,719
ES	3,107	6,104
FI	5,515	50,657
GB	5,860	6,496
GR	1,963	4,454
HU	1,420	440
IE	7,395	11,408
IN	85	3,646
LK	134	115
LT	2,232	5,192
MX	761	3,270
MY	450	612
PA	1,558	15,825
PL	2,014	3,189
SG	3,922	284
TH	327	7,236
TR	548	3,000
US	13,473	11,994

Countries where a price could be read at all

A country's absence is an absence of publication, or of this project's attention.

The 20 numbers behind this chart

	prices
Thailand	64
United States of America	27
Czechia	22
United Kingdom	22
Mexico	18
Australia	16
Poland	11
Turkey	11
Ireland	7.0
India	7.0
Spain	6.0
Greece	6.0
Hungary	6.0
Lithuania	4.0
Malaysia	4.0
Switzerland	3.0
Singapore	3.0
United Arab Emirates	2.0
Canada	1.0
Germany	1.0

Which accreditor's mark appears on these records

A count of marks in this directory, which reflects which hospitals got written up here. Accreditation is an inspection the applicant pays for; it is not a score, and this chart ranks nothing.

The 12 numbers behind this chart

	facilities
jci	22
other	13
newsweek-statista	10
isqua-eea	8.0
moh-tr	5.0
kohta	4.0
nabh	2.0
promed	2.0
moh-ae	1.0
ha-moh-th	1.0
achsi	1.0
mhtc	1.0

The years it turned

Every event record that carries a year. A field with no census of itself still has dates: a declaration, a directive, an outbreak, a paper, a year the borders shut.

The 8 dates on this line

Year	What
2008	The Declaration of Istanbul, 2008
2010	NDM-1, 2010
2011	Directive 2011/24/EU adopted, 9 March 2011
2017	The Dominican mycobacterial outbreaks, 2013–14 and 2017
2019	The IMTJ Medical Travel Summit and Awards
2020	The 2020 shutdown
2022	Türkiye's hair transplant boom
2023	The Matamoros fungal meningitis outbreak, 2023

What is missing, said plainly

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

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.

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.

A hospital missing here is missing from OpenStreetMap on the fetch date, outside the radius queried, or not yet written up.

The same object as JSON: api/coverage.json.

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