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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
In the U.S, there were 2.4 doctors per 1,000 people in 2005; in Canada, there were 2.2. [92] Some doctors leave Canada to pursue career goals or higher pay in the U.S., though significant numbers of physicians from countries such as China, India, Pakistan and South Africa immigrate to practice in Canada. [citation needed] Many Canadian ...
Canada has a ratio of practising physicians to population that is below the OECD average. [ 9 ] In 2018-2019, the average gross payment per physician reached $347,000 a year.
Canada's population is aging, like that of many other countries. ... CTV news reported that, in 2006, family physicians in Canada made an average of $202,000 a year.
The country has the largest number of doctors-to-population ratio of any OECD country. [175] Life expectancy in Greece is 80.3 years, above the OECD average of 79.5. [175] and among the highest in the world. The same OECD report showed that Greece had the largest percentage of adult daily smokers of any of the 34 OECD members. [175]
Medical doctors per 1,000 people in 2018. [1]Physician supply refers to the number of trained physicians working in a health care system or active in the labor market. [2] The supply depends primarily on the number of graduates of medical schools in a country or jurisdiction but also on the number continuing to practice medicine as a career path and remaining in their country of origin.
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.