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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units per million people

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units per million people
Number of units, machines that use magnetic fields and radio waves for detailed body imaging, per million people in the population.
Source
World Health Organisation (2022) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 13, 2023
Next expected update
January 2025
Date range
2010–2021
Unit
units per million population

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

The Global Atlas of Medical Devices (GAMD) provides global, regional, and country data on the availability of:

  • National policy on health technology
  • Regulation of medical devices
  • Health technology assessment national unit
  • Health technology management
  • Use of medical devices nomenclature system
  • National lists of priority medical devices
  • High-cost medical equipment

The GAMD also identifies that Member States designate a focal point for health technologies and medical devices. Each Member State designates a focal point in the ministry of health with the survey responses.

The WHO Baseline Country Survey on Medical Devices was developed in 2009. The aim was to determine the health technology areas that required support in countries and regions. It was launched in February 2010. In 2013, it was updated and re-launched as the Global Atlas of Medical Devices. The GAMD was updated in 2017, and the 2022 update is under development.

Retrieved on
October 13, 2023
Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-policy-and-standards/assistive-and-medical-technology/medical-devices/global-atlas-of-medical-devices
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Global atlas of medical devices, World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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“Data Page: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units per million people”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Veronika Samborska, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2023) - “Cardiovascular Diseases”. Data adapted from World Health Organisation. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri-units-availability [online resource]
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World Health Organisation (2022) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

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World Health Organisation (2022) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units per million people” [dataset]. World Health Organisation, “Global atlas of medical devices” [original data]. Retrieved December 14, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri-units-availability