List of countries and dependencies by number of physicians

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.

List

Country or dependency	2000–2009^[1]		2007–2013 ^[2]	Latest available data (2020–2023)^[3]
Country or dependency	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	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 Islands	24	5	4.4
Mexico	303519	29	21	23.8
Federated States of Micronesia	60	6	1.8	9.63
Mozambique	548	0.5	0.4	0.81
Monaco	270	71.7	71.7
Mongolia	6732	26	28.4
Myanmar	17791	4	6.1
Namibia	598	3	3.7
Nauru	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
Niue	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 Islands	20	12	12
Pakistan	127859	8	8.3	9.8
Palau	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 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 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
Tuvalu	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
Fiji	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

"WHO 2020" (PDF). p. 62. Retrieved 2020-12-26.

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