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Objective: Introduction: At present, the world faces an extremely heterogeneous situation in providing population with access to intensive care. In healthcare systems of different countries, there are significant differences in the number of available ICU beds per 10 thousand population. Even in the united Europe, the indicator is extremely variable and ranges from 0.42 ICU beds per 10.000 population in Portugal to 2.92 ICU beds per 10.000 population in Germany (a difference of almost 7 times), amounting to an average of 1.15 ICU beds per 10 thousand population The aim: To identify major trends in the number of ICU beds, the number of ICU patients and the rates of ICU mortality in Ukraine over the period of time from 2007 to 2015 based on the analysis of available data on the national intensive care service., Patients and Methods: Materials and methods: The data from the 2007 nationwide audit of the domestic intensive care service and the summarized 2015 annual reports from the regional intensive care services, encompassing all the healthcare facilities that provide intensive care to population (819 hospitals in total) and represent 22 out of 26 administrative territories (regions) of the country, have been used to carry out comparative, 2015 vs. 2007, analysis and establish major trends in the indicators of interest., Results: Results: The negligible increase in the number of ICU beds on referential territories in absolute (from 4.765 to 5.049) and relative (from 1.4 to 1.5 per 10 thousand population) figures have been found within the period of time from 2007 to 2015. In contrast, more prominent increase in the number of ICU patients (from 385.068 to 462.395 in absolute figures and from 111.6 to 138.2 per 10 thousand population) and in ICU mortality rates (from 8.4% to 8.7%) have been established. The average Ukrainian figure of the number of ICU beds per 10 thousand population for the year 2015 (1.5) seems to be roughly comparable with the corresponding European one for the year 2012 (1.15)., Conclusion: Conclusions: The inclining trends in the number of ICU patients and ICU mortality rates, against the background of negligible growth in the bed capacity of the national intensive care service, indicate the need in the increase in the number of ICU beds in Ukraine.