83% of people live within a 15-minute drive of a hospital

In 2023, the share of the EU population living within a 15-minute drive of a hospital was 83.2%. Among EU regions at level 3 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 3), there were 124 regions where 100% of the population lived within that 15-minute range (darkest shade of blue on the map), and 96 of those were located in Germany. The other regions in this group were in Belgium (6), the Netherlands (6, including the capital of Groot-Amsterdam), Greece (4, all of which are part of...