TABLE 2.
Inpatient mental health services per 100,000 population (World Health Organization, 2018a; World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 2019)
| WHO region | World Bank income group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSA | EMR | EUR | Global | Low | High | |
| I. Mental hospitals | ||||||
| Facilities | 0.08 | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.17 |
| Beds | 17.1 | 4.0 | 34.2 | 11.3 | 1.6 | 31.1 |
| Admissions | 78.7 | 21.2 | 89.6 | 56.3 | 8.6 | 163.2 |
| II. Psychiatric units in general hospitals | ||||||
| Facilities | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.40 |
| Beds | 0.3 | 0.4 | 12.3 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 13.1 |
| Admissions | – | 21.3 | 160.5 | 44.4 | 6.9 | 156.9 |
| III. Other inpatient units | ||||||
| Facilities | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.63 |
| Beds | 1.0 | 0.7 | 13.2 | 3.1 | – | 8.4 |
| Admissions | 0.6 | 0.2 | 203.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 14.0 |
Abbreviations: EMR, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region; EUR, WHO European Region; KSA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; WHO, World Health Organization.