The table indicates changes in in different aspects in health care in three selected countries, namely Austria, France and Sweden during the period of 20 years starting from 1980.
Overall, Sweden had the highest figures for physicians and hospital beds per 1000 individuals. This explained for why hospitals in this country received more average stay than those of the other countries.
As can be seen from the table, the number of physicians in Austria witnessed a mild increase, from 0.8 to 1. Following this trajectory, the figure for doctors in Sweden started at 3.6 and ended with 3.8, except from a fall to 3 in 1990. By contrast, in France, there was a huge decline in this category, from 2.4 in 1980 to only 1.3 at the end of the time frame. Meanwhile, the statistics of hospital beds in all countries experienced an upward trend, with Sweden ranking first through the period. The most significant growth was in the number of beds in Austria, from 1.4 initially to 3.7 per thousand people in 2000.
As regards average stay in hospitals, the figure for Austria remained stable, despite of a drop to only 6 in 1990. On the other hand, there was a moderate decrease in the number of this category in Sweden, from 23 to 21 eventually. Similarly, the figure for France began with 9, gradually going down and finally ending with only 5 at the end of the time frame.