Table 1.

Private and public hospitals and bed estimates from 1976 to 2010

Year	Private		Public
	Hospitals	Beds	Hospitals	Beds
1976	251	2 3461
1986	651	6 1252		117 8423
1989	1011	10 9361
19984	162	20 908	343	107 634
20105	216	31 067	410	88 920

¹ Hospital Association of South Africa [32], ² Estimated using the bed to hospital ratio for 1976 from the other data in the table, ³Estimated from Zwaranstein et al [33], ⁴Health Systems Trust [34], ⁵Health Systems Trust [35].