List of countries and dependencies by number of physicians

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A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

(Unreliable data: It says the country with most physicians, China, has 1,862,630 physicians and 19.8 physicians per 10,000 people. That puts the population at 941 million, while the country actually has 1.4 billion people.)

List

Country or dependency 2000–2009[1] 2007–2013 [2] Latest available data (2020–2023)[3]
Size Physicians per
10,000 people
Physicians per
10,000 people
Physicians per
10,000 people
 Australia 19612 10 32.7 41.02
 Austria 31175 38 48.3 54.6
 Azerbaijan 32388 38 34.0
 Albania 3626 11 11.5 18.83
 Algeria 40857 12 12.1 17.2
 Angola 1165 1 1.7
Andorra Andorra 249 37 40.0
 Argentina 122623 32 38.6 38.95
 Armenia 11090 37 27.0
 Afghanistan 5970 2 2.7 2.54
Bahamas
997 28.2 28.2
 Bangladesh 42881 3 3.6 6.7
 Bahrain 2227 30 9.2
 Belarus 46965 49 39.3
 Belize 251 11 8.3
 Belgium 44124 42 29.9 62.57
 Benin 542 1 0.6
 Bulgaria 27911 37 38.7
 Bolivia 10329 12 4.7
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5540 14 19.3
 Botswana 715 4 4
 Brazil 320013 17 18.9 21.6
 Brunei 400 11 14.4 19.13
 Burkina Faso 921 1 0.5
 Burundi 200 0.5 8.55 0.65
 Bhutan 52 0.5 2.6 5.6
 North Macedonia 5187 25 26.2
 Vanuatu 30 1 1.2
 Hungary 27957 28 30.8 32.91
 Venezuela 48000 19 19 16.64
 Vietnam 44960 6 11.9
 Gabon 395 3 3 5.94
 Guyana 366 5 2.1 14.05
 Gambia 62 0.5 1.1 0.77
 Ghana 2587 1 1 1.64
 Guatemala 13367 9.3 9.3 12.8
 Guinea 940 1 1
 Guinea-Bissau 78 0.5 0.7 2.2
 Germany 288182 35 38.9 42.5
 Honduras 3676 6 6 4.89
 Greece 59599 54 54 63.06
 Georgia 19951 45 42.7 71.2
 Denmark 17226 32 34.9
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5827 1 1
 Djibouti 140 2 2
 Dominican Republic 15670 19 14.9
 Egypt 179900 24 28.3 4.5
 Zambia 649 1 1.7 2.97
 Zimbabwe 2086 2 0.8 1.89
 Israel 25314 36 33.4 36.54
 India 643520 6 7 8.6
 Indonesia 204000 4.3
 Jordan 15279 26 25.6
 Iraq 15994 5 6.1 7.1
 Iran 61870 9 9 15.8
 Ireland 13141 31 26.7 40.62
 Iceland 1120 38 34.8
 Spain 163800 38 49.5 45.77
 Italy 215000 37 37.6 41.62
 Yemen 6739 3 2
 Cape Verde 310 6 3.1
 Kazakhstan 57387 39 36.2 40.28
 Cambodia 2047 2 1.7
 Cameroon 3124 2 0.8 1.24
 Canada 62307 19 20.7 26.1
 Qatar 2313 28 77.4 24.9
 Kenya 4506 1 2 2.26
 Cyprus 1950 23 23.3 53.75
 Kiribati 20 2 3.8
 China 1862630 14 14.9 19.8
 Colombia 58761 14 14.7 23.62
 Comoros 115 2 2
 Republic of the Congo 401 1 1
 North Korea 74597 33 33
 Costa Rica 5204 13 11.1 27.7
 Ivory Coast 2746 1 1.4
 Cuba 72416 64 67.2 84.2
 Kuwait 4840 18 17.9 22.93
 Kyrgyzstan 12395 23 19.7
 Laos 2000 3 1.8 3.27
 Latvia 6940 30 35.8 33.45
 Lesotho 89 1 1
 Liberia 51 0.5 0.1
 Lebanon 11760 33 32
 Libya 7070 12 19
 Lithuania 13729 40 41.2 49.5
 Luxembourg 1326 29 29 30.1
 Mauritius 1303 11 11 26.58
 Mauritania 445 1 1.3
 Madagascar 3150 2 1.6
 Malawi 257 0.5 0.2 0.49
 Malaysia 17020 7 12 22.28
 Mali 1060 1 0.8
 Maldives 302 9 14.2
 Malta 1357 34 34.9 54.85
 Morocco 18269 6 6.2 7.3
Marshall IslandsMarshall Islands 24 5 4.4
 Mexico 303519 29 21 23.8
Federated States of MicronesiaFederated States of Micronesia 60 6 1.8 9.63
 Mozambique 548 0.5 0.4 0.81
MonacoMonaco 270 71.7 71.7
 Mongolia 6732 26 28.4
 Myanmar 17791 4 6.1
 Namibia 598 3 3.7
NauruNauru 10 8 7.1
 Nepal 5384 2 2 8.67
 Niger 288 0.5 0.2 0.34
 Nigeria 55376 4 4.1 3.8
 Netherlands 64417 39 39 38.36
 Nicaragua 2045 4 9
NiueNiue 4 20 30
 New Zealand 8190 21 27.4 35.16
 Norway 18143 39 42.8 51.68
 Tanzania 300 0.5 0.3
 United Arab Emirates 6946 15 25.3 28.79
 Oman 4908 18 24.3 19.94
Cook IslandsCook Islands 20 12 12
 Pakistan 127859 8 8.3 9.8
PalauPalau 30 16 13.8 17.78
 Panama 4431 15 16.5 16.29
 Papua New Guinea 275 1 0.6 0.63
 Paraguay 6355 11 12.3 32.42
 Peru 34437 11.3 11.3 16.46
 Poland 77479 20 22.2 37.17
 Portugal 36138 34 41 41.4
 South Korea 81998 17 21.4 25.08
 Moldova 11167 27 29.8 40.57
 Russia 614183 43 43 40.1
 Rwanda 221 0.5 0.6
 Romania 41455 19 24.5
 El Salvador 7938 12 16 29.13
 Samoa 50 3 4.5 5.54
San MarinoSan Marino 163 51.0 51
 São Tomé and Príncipe 81 5 5
 Saudi Arabia 41870 16 24.9 27.6
 Eswatini 171 2 1.7 1.4
 Seychelles 121 15 10.7
 Senegal 741 1 0.6 0.84
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 89 8 8
Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and Nevis 46 11 11
 Saint Lucia 18 1.1 1.1
 Serbia 20013 20 21.1
 Singapore 6380 15 19.5
 Syria 10342 5 14.6
 Slovakia 16868 31 33.2 46.29
 Slovenia 4766 24 25.2 32.79
 United Kingdom 126126 21 28.1 31.71
 United States 793648 27 24.5 26.1
 Solomon Islands 60 1 2.2
 Somalia 300 0.5 0.5
 Sudan 11083 3 2.8
 Suriname 191 5 5
 Sierra Leone 95 0.5 0.2 0.7
 Tajikistan 13267 20 19.2
 Thailand 18987 3 3.9 9.28
 Timor-Leste 79 1 0.7 7.67
 Togo 349 1 0.5 0.59
 Tonga 30 3 5.6 10.09
 Trinidad and Tobago 1543 12 11.8 34.12
TuvaluTuvalu 10 9 10.9 12.61
 Tunisia 13330 13 12.2
 Turkmenistan 12104 24 24
 Turkey 110482 15 17.1 18.5
 Uganda 3361 1 1 1.58
 Uzbekistan 71627 26 25.3
 Ukraine 143728 31 35.4
 Uruguay 12384 37 37.4 62
FijiFiji 380 5 4.3
 Philippines 90370 12 12 7.83
 Finland 17503 33 29.1 43.25
 France 227683 37 31.9 32.7
 Croatia 11799 26 28.4
 Central African Republic 331 1 0.5 0.7
 Chad 345 0.5 0.5 0.4
 Montenegro 1233 20 21.1 27.68
 Czech Republic 36815 36 36.2 54.69
 Chile 17250 11 17.8 29.73
 Switzerland 28812 40 40.5 43
 Sweden 32495 36 39.3 70.62
 Sri Lanka 10479 6 6.8 11.92
 Ecuador 18335 15 17.2
 Equatorial Guinea 153 3 3
 Eritrea 215 1 1 0.82
 Estonia 4414 33 32.4 38.63
 Ethiopia 1806 0.5 0.3 1.04
 South Africa 34829 8 7.8 8.09
 Jamaica 2253 9 4.1
 Japan 270371 21 23 24.1

References

  1. ^ "WHO 2010" (PDF).
  2. ^ "WHO 2015" (PDF).
  3. ^ WHO, GHO (2023-01-12). "Medical doctors (per 10 000 population)". World Health Organization. Retrieved 2023-10-11.