China’s National Health Commission released statistics on the improvement in health care for the Chinese population in 2024. Life expectancy reached 79.0 years, while the maternal mortality rate dropped to 14.3 per 100,000, and the infant mortality rate fell to 4.0 per thousand live births.
By the end of 2024, China had 1.09 million medical and health institutions, an increase of 22,766 from the previous year. Among them, 38,710 were hospitals, up by 355 from 2023. (For comparison, 146 rural hospitals in the United States were closed over 2005-2023.) The number of health technical personnel reached 13.02 million, an increase of 531,000 (up 4.3%), including 9.37 million in hospitals.
