In the essay, the Penn team said the number of patients in the country's state psychiatric facilities fell from 560,000 in 1955 to 45,000 as a result of the deinstitutionalization movement. The United States now has 14 public psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, the same as in 1850. On average, Sisti said, countries in the European Union have 50 beds per 100,000.