Doctors and specialists in Kozhikode
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Healthcare in Kozhikode at a glance
Quick facts about Kozhikode and its healthcare system. Hospital, bed and doctor figures are estimates scaled from state and national data, because no public source counts them city by city.
| City population (2025 estimate) | 4.4 million (44 lakh)UN World Population Prospects 2024, urban-area figure |
|---|---|
| Population rank among top-100 cities | #11Large (2-5M) |
| Estimated hospital beds in the city | ~12,000State beds per 1,000 x city population |
| Estimated ICU beds | ~580ICU assumed at 5% of beds |
| Estimated hospitals (public + private) | ~390Scaled from state totals |
| Estimated practising doctors, all systems | ~5,400National ratio of 1 per 811 people |
| Estimated nurses and midwives | ~9,800National ratio of 2.23 per 1,000 |
| Hospital beds per 1,000 (state) | 2.63India average about 1.39; Above avg |
| Private share of hospital beds (state) | 62%2019-era estimate |
| Infant mortality (state, 2024) | 8 per 1,000 live birthsIndia: 24 (SRS 2024) |
| Life expectancy at birth (state, 2023, modelled) | 78.0 yearsIndia: about 72 |
Kozhikode has an estimated 4.4 million (44 lakh) residents in 2025, based on the UN's 2024 World Population Prospects urban-area estimate. That makes it number 11 among the 100 largest cities in this directory, and falls in our Large (2-5M) size band. At the assumed growth of 3.4% a year, it would reach about 5.2 million by 2030, so demand for healthcare services is likely to keep rising.
Scaling Kerala's 2.63 beds per 1,000 people (the India-wide figure is about 1.39) to the city's population gives roughly 12,000 hospital beds in Kozhikode, including about 580 ICU beds, spread across an estimated 390 hospitals (about 150 public and 240 private). That is about 380 residents for every bed and around 30 beds per hospital on average. Measured against the WHO's often-quoted benchmark of 3 beds per 1,000 people, the city would need roughly 1,600 more beds, which is one reason private clinics and hospitals carry so much of the load.
The same national ratio of one practising doctor per 811 people suggests about 5,400 practising doctors across all systems of medicine in Kozhikode, supported by around 9,800 nurses and midwives. Specialist head-counts are not published city by city, so these figures show overall scale rather than the number of any one speciality.
On health outcomes, Kerala's infant mortality rate is 8 per 1,000 live births (2024), well below the national figure of 24, and modelled life expectancy is about 78.0 years against roughly 72 for India; these are state-wide measures, not city measurements. About 62% of hospital beds in Kerala are private, so most people weigh private doctors and specialists against government outpatient departments. This directory lists 15 providers for Kozhikode across 15 specialities, and 6 other cities in Kerala have their own doctor page below.
General information compiled from public sources (MoHFW, SRS 2024, CDDEP / One Health Trust, UN WPP 2024, Census 2011); estimates, not official counts, and not medical advice.
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