Emergency medical services provided to the population in Russia, 1970–2024
Ambulance service operations changed from 1970 to 2024, and this table tracks trends across key indicators. The table contains three rows: total number of stations and departments, number of calls in millions, and number of calls per 1,000 population. These data reflect the scale of the service and the workload on medical personnel across different decades. The annual data were prepared by the Ministry of Health of Russia and calculated by Rosstat to analyze healthcare system development
Chart of the number of ambulance stations, total number of calls, and calls per 1,000 population from 1970 to 2024
- Number of emergency medical care stations (departments) (end of year)
- total, million
- per 1,000 population
See also
- Incidence in Russia by year long time series by year
- Infant mortality in Russia by year long time series by year
- Number of doctors in Russia by year long time series by year
- Number of hospital beds in Russia by year long time series by year
- Number of hospitals in Russia by year long time series by year
- Сколько врачей в России: 749,9 тыс. в 2024 году, по годам indicator breakdown
- Заболеваемость в России по годам: статистика 2000–2024 indicator breakdown
- Алкоголизм в России по годам: статистика 2010–2025 indicator breakdown
Set in numbers
3 series are published here, from 1970 to 2024, 29 reporting periods. 87 values in total.
“Number of emergency medical care stations (departments) (end of year)” declined by 4.6% between 1970 and 2024, from 1,921 to 1,833. The highest value in the series is 3,276 in 2005.
All table numbers are series: 3
| Series | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Число станций (отделений) скорой медицинской помощи (на конец года) | 1 921,00 | 2 325,00 | 3 042,00 | 3 172,00 | 3 172,00 | 3 212,00 | 3 252,00 | 3 268,00 | 3 266,00 | 3 276,00 | 3 223,00 | 3 091,00 | 3 029,00 | 2 992,00 | 2 940,00 | 2 912,00 | 2 841,00 | 2 704,00 | 2 657,00 | 2 561,00 | 2 458,00 | 2 338,00 | 2 276,00 | 2 211,00 | 2 113,00 | 2 035,00 | 1 931,00 | 1 876,00 | 1 833,00 |
| всего, млн. | 28,60 | 45,70 | 51,50 | 52,50 | 52,30 | 52,30 | 52,50 | 52,90 | 51,60 | 51,50 | 51,60 | 51,90 | 51,10 | 51,20 | 50,70 | 50,30 | 50,20 | 48,10 | 48,10 | 47,70 | 47,30 | 45,70 | 45,60 | 45,70 | 45,50 | 46,90 | 43,80 | 41,40 | 39,40 |
| на 1000 человек населения | 220,00 | 329,00 | 348,00 | 357,00 | 359,00 | 361,00 | 364,00 | 369,00 | 361,00 | 361,00 | 361,00 | 363,00 | 358,00 | 359,00 | 355,00 | 352,00 | 350,00 | 334,00 | 331,00 | 325,00 | 321,00 | 310,00 | 309,00 | 309,00 | 308,00 | 319,00 | 299,00 | 283,00 | 270,00 |
How to read this table
The rows differ by how workload is measured: one shows the physical number of medical facilities, the second shows the total volume of calls in millions, and the third shows service intensity per 1,000 population. Comparing these indicators reveals how service accessibility changed alongside the number of stations, which decreased from 1,921 in 1970 to 1,833 in 2024. The data cover the entire country and allow for year-to-year comparisons
What is visible in these numbers
“Number of emergency medical care stations (departments) (end of year)” leads the table with 1,833, “total, million” closes it with 39.4. The gap between them is 46.5-fold.
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Period and application
Statistical data cover the period from 1970 to 2024 and provide annual nationwide values. This data is suitable for analyzing healthcare system development and planning medical service resources in regions. The information is regularly updated and is based on Rosstat calculations using data from the Ministry of Health of Russia
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