Table 2.
Relative numbers of stroke units, annual number of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) treatments, IVT centres, annual endovascular treatment (EVT) and EVT centres per annual incident ischaemic strokes.a
| Country | Annual no. of incident ischaemic strokesa | Stroke units per 1000 ischaemic strokes | Annual no. of IVTs per 1000 ischaemic strokes | Proportion of stroke patients with IVT (%) | IVT hospitals per 1000 ischaemic strokes | Annual no. of EVTs per 1000 ischaemic strokes | Proportion of ischaemic stroke patients with EVT (%) | EVT centres per 1000 ischaemic strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 4815 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Austria | 16,314 | 2.3 | 183.9 | 18.4 | 2.3 | 39.8 | 4.0 | 0.7 |
| Belarus | 30,056 | – | – | – | 0.4 | – | - | 0.0 |
| Belgium | 19,689 | – | 114.3 | 11.4 | – | 35.9 | 3.6 | 0.9 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 13,580 | 0.3 | 11.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Bulgaria | 28,869 | 1.0 | 10.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Croatia | 20,278 | 0.9 | 14.8 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Czech Republic | 30,877 | 1.5 | 123.1 | 12.3 | 1.5 | 34.4 | 3.4 | 0.5 |
| Denmark | 8339 | 2.4 | 195.7 | 19.6 | 1.2 | 33.6 | 3.4 | 0.4 |
| Estonia | 3757 | 1.1 | 144.0 | 14.4 | 1.6 | 29.0 | 2.9 | 0.8 |
| Finland | 12,685 | 1.7 | 126.1 | 12.6 | 1.7 | 32.1 | 3.2 | 0.4 |
| France | 87,372 | 1.6 | 91.6 | 9.2 | 1.6 | 52.5 | 5.3 | 0.4 |
| Georgia | 8973 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Germany | 171,801 | 1.7 | 174.6 | 17.5 | 2.0 | 52.4 | 5.2 | 0.8 |
| Greece | 22,182 | 0.2 | 10.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Hungary | 32,335 | 1.2 | 61.9 | 6.2 | 1.2 | 8.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Iceland | 419 | 2.4 | 71.6 | 7.2 | 11.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Ireland | 4809 | 4.6 | 114.4 | 11.4 | 5.0 | 43.7 | 4.4 | 0.4 |
| Israel | 7411 | 1.3 | 161.9 | 16.2 | 2.7 | 40.5 | 4.0 | 1.2 |
| Italy | 108,811 | 1.6 | 73.5 | 7.4 | 1.7 | 17.3 | 1.7 | 0.5 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5238 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Latvia | 10,282 | 0.7 | 52.5 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 9.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
| Lithuania | 12,539 | 0.6 | 55.7 | 5.6 | 0.8 | 22.0 | 2.2 | 0.5 |
| Luxembourg | 700 | 4.3 | 42.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 0.4 | 1.4 |
| FYROM | 5939 | 0.2 | 10.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Malta | 537 | 1.9 | 74.5 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 55.9 | 5.6 | 1.9 |
| Montenegro | 1315 | 0.0 | 15.2 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Netherlands | 23,458 | 3.6 | 205.5 | 20.6 | 3.6 | 46.4 | 4.6 | 0.9 |
| Northern Cyprus | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Norway | 8230 | 5.8 | 133.7 | 13.4 | 6.0 | 18.2 | 1.8 | 0.6 |
| Poland | 99,397 | 1.7 | 65.3 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Portugal | 18,208 | 1.4 | 83.3 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 46.4 | 4.6 | 0.5 |
| Republic of Moldova | 9592 | 0.2 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Romania | 79,247 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Russia | 538,984b | 0.8 | 21.6 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Serbia | 31,632 | 0.3 | 12.6 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Slovakia | 16,273 | 2.2 | 59.7 | 6.0 | 2.7 | 23.7 | 2.4 | 0.4 |
| Slovenia | 4629 | 0.6 | 86.4 | 8.6 | 2.6 | 30.7 | 3.1 | 0.2 |
| Spain | 66,594 | 0.9 | 75.1 | 7.5 | 0.9 | 36.2 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
| Sweden | 17,361 | 4.1 | 149.8 | 15.0 | 4.1 | 22.5 | 2.2 | 0.3 |
| Switzerland | 12,896 | 1.8 | 77.5 | 7.8 | 1.8 | 48.5 | 4.9 | 0.7 |
| Turkey | 69,064 | 0.5 | 21.4 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 6.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Ukraine | 160,904 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| United Kingdom | 87,594 | 2.3 | 117.5 | 11.7 | 2.3 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Total /Mean [95% CI] | 1,913,985 | 1.5[1.1–1.9] | 72.7[54.2–91.2] | 7.3%[5.4–9.1] | 1.9[1.3–2.5] | 19.3[13.5–25.1] | 1.9%[1.3–2.5] | 0.4[0.3–0.5] |
FYROM: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
aAccording to Global Burden of Disease estimates (2016).8
bAccording to the local experts, the incidence of ischemic stroke is overestimated.