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Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist; William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory system; Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) — inventor of the Heimlich maneuver and the Vietnam War-era chest drain valve; Orvan Hess (1906–2002) — fetal heart monitor and first successful use of penicillin
Thomas McKeown (1912–1988) was a British physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine. [1] [2] Largely based on demographic data from England and Wales, McKeown argued that the population growth since the late eighteenth century was due to improving economic conditions, i.e. better nutrition, rather than to better hygiene, public health measures, and improved medicine.
As of 2017, the US stands 43rd in the world with a life expectancy of 80.00 years [65] In 2007, the CIA World Factbook ranked the US 180th worst (out of 221)—meaning 42nd best—in the world for infant mortality rate (5.01/1,000 live births). [182]
Top 10 states with the highest population increase since 2022. Texas 473,453. Florida 365,205. North Carolina 139,526. Georgia 116,077. South Carolina 90,600
The table below shows annual population growth rate history and projections for various areas, countries, regions and sub-regions from various sources for various time periods. The right-most column shows a projection for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Preceding columns show actual history.
The District of Columbia has, by far, the largest number of physicians as a percentage of the population, with 1,639 per 100,000 people. [13] Additionally, Among active physicians, 56.2% identified as White, 17.1% identified as Asian, 5.8% identified as Hispanic, 5.0% identified as Black, and 0.3% identified as American Indian/Alaska Native.
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List of countries by physicians per 10,000 people [1] Country Physicians per 10,000 people Year Afghanistan: 2.535 2020 Albania: 18.826 2020 Algeria: 9.868 2019 Andorra: 36.262 2015 Angola: 2.443 2022 Anguilla: 15.132 2018 Antigua and Barbuda: 28.979 2017 Argentina: 40.818 2022 Armenia: 31.174 2019 Australia: 39.812 2021 Austria: 55.083 2022