Healthcare
01
52,048 beds, counted.
The Ministry of Health's 2024 hospital-bed count, the blood supply day by day, and the staff behind both — read live from the official open-data API. What the public record says about the system, stated with its dates attached.
Hospital beds · 2024
52,048
MoH hospitals, non-MoH hospitals and special medical institutions combined
Beds per 1,000 residents
1.51
2024 beds against DOSM's 2026 population estimate — two vintages, one ratio
Blood donations · 2025
590k
the last complete year of a daily series current to 10 October 2026
Healthcare staff · 2022
167,690
including 58,193 doctors and 79,397 nurses, on MoH's own staffing count
Official latestThese are the newest figures each ministry dataset has published to the open API, not a live census of the system. The bed and staff series are annual and run to 2024 — older than the blood series, which updates daily. Every figure on this page names its own year.
MoH hospital_beds, blood_donations & healthcare_staff via the data.gov.my open API; DOSM population estimates via OpenDOSM · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Each figure names its own year: beds 2024, blood 2025 (daily series current to 2026-10-10), staff 2022, population 2026. Where a ratio mixes vintages, the caption says so.
Capacity
02
Putrajaya has the most beds per resident. Selangor has the fewest.
Each state's 2024 bed count, divided by DOSM's 2023 population estimate. Putrajaya tops the ratio at 7.08 beds per 1,000 residents; Selangor has the fewest beds per resident, at 1.16. That is a statement about counted capacity — not about the quality of care in either place.
| State / territory | Beds · 2024 | Beds per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| Putrajaya | 844 | 7.08 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 5,498 | 2.75 |
| Perak | 6,021 | 2.37 |
| Perlis | 517 | 1.77 |
| Sarawak | 4,189 | 1.67 |
| Terengganu | 1,971 | 1.63 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 1,977 | 1.61 |
| Pahang | 2,646 | 1.61 |
| Kelantan | 2,987 | 1.61 |
| Sabah | 5,097 | 1.42 |
| Kedah | 2,919 | 1.33 |
| Johor | 5,448 | 1.33 |
| Melaka | 1,349 | 1.31 |
| Labuan | 122 | 1.23 |
| Penang | 2,129 | 1.20 |
| Selangor | 8,334 | 1.16 |
Beds are MoH's 2024 counts, all facility types; populations are DOSM's 2023 mid-year estimates — two vintages, named because they differ. Small federal territories host hospitals that serve patients from well beyond their own borders, which inflates their per-resident ratio.
Computed — MoH hospital beds (2024) ÷ DOSM population estimates (2023) · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Two official series, two vintages: beds are the ministry's 2024 counts, populations are DOSM's 2023 mid-year state estimates (2026 for the national figure). The ratio is indicative, not a same-year measurement.
Blood supply
03
Sundays give the most blood.
Malaysians made 589,866 blood donations in 2025 — the highest annual total in the series, counted one day at a time since 2006. Averaged across the year, Sundays see 2,722 donations against 1,023 on Mondays.
The weekly rhythm
| Weekday | Avg donations / day |
|---|---|
| Monday | 1,023 |
| Tuesday | 1,483 |
| Wednesday | 1,542 |
| Thursday | 1,584 |
| Friday | 1,042 |
| Saturday | 1,918 |
| Sunday | 2,722 |
Average daily donations by weekday across 2025, computed from the national daily series.
Ministry of Health / National Blood Centre (PDN) — blood_donations (daily national donations), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Daily counts since 2006, current to 2026-10-10. Annual figures are sums of the daily series; 2026 is a part year and is excluded from annual totals.
Did you know
5,543 donations in a single day.
The busiest day in the whole daily record is 11 September 2012 — 3.4 times the 2025 daily average of about 1,616. The series records the count, not the campaign behind it.
Computed from PDN/MoH daily donation records, 2006–2025
6,961 beds added since 2015.
The 2015 count was 45,087 beds; the 2024 count is 52,048 — +15.4% across 9 years, an average of about 773 a year.
Computed from MoH hospital bed counts, 2015–2024
A 2.7× gap between Sundays and Mondays.
Across 2025, Sundays averaged 2,722 donations and Mondays 1,023. The daily series records the what, not the why — but the pattern repeats week after week, all year.
Computed from PDN/MoH daily donation records, 2025
Deep data
03.3
Read this chapter the way it is written.
These are administrative counts from official open datasets — useful for understanding the system, and no use at all for deciding what to do about a symptom tonight. Nothing on this page is medical advice. If you or someone near you needs care, seek it; the bed count is the ministry's problem, not yours.
Beds series
2015–2024
annual MoH counts by facility type, state and district
Blood series
2006–today
daily national counts, current to 10 October 2026
Staff series
2014–2022
doctors, nurses, community nurses and dentists
Update cadence
Mixed
blood updates daily; beds and staff are yearly, last published for 2024
Public information is not medical advice
This page can tell you how many hospital beds Malaysia counted in 2024. It cannot tell you whether to go to a hospital, which one, or when. No figure here should inform a decision about anyone's health — that is what clinicians are for.
A busy facility is not an unsafe one
A thin beds-per-resident ratio describes counted capacity against counted residents — nothing more. It says nothing about the skill of the staff, the outcomes of the patients, or where you would be well treated. This chapter ranks numbers, never care.
What the beds count covers
The total is the sum of the dataset's own three facility types in 2024: MoH hospitals (41,209 beds), non-MoH hospitals (5,193) and special medical institutions (5,646). Whatever falls outside those three categories is not in these figures.
The vintage question
The bed and staff series stop at 2024 on the open API — the newest the ministry has published, and this page says so rather than dressing them up as current. Population denominators are DOSM estimates from 2023 vintage; every ratio that mixes two years names both.
Ministry of Health — hospital_beds (annual bed counts by facility type, state and district), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Latest year in the dataset: 2024. The count is the sum of the dataset's own facility types — MoH hospitals, non-MoH hospitals and special medical institutions. Updated yearly; 2024 is the newest year the ministry has published to the open API.
Ministry of Health — healthcare_staff (annual staff counts by type), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 09:42 UTC
Doctors, nurses, community nurses and dentists as counted in the ministry's staffing dataset, 2014–2022. The dataset does not describe its public/private coverage, so this page treats it as the ministry's own count and claims nothing wider.
Beds per resident only means something because the Population chapter supplies the denominator — and who pays for the beds is a question for Government.