Average Hospital Length-of-Stay by Sex in 2023

The average length of stay of in-patients in hospitals is computed by first calculating the number of hospital days (or bed-days or in-patient days) from the date of admission to an in-patient institution as the date of discharge minus date of admission and then dividing this by the number of discharges during the year.

The avg Length of Stays are sorted based on difference between sex (Men and Women) in which women on average have shorter length of stay compared to men.