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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
The country has the largest number of doctors-to-population ratio of any OECD country. [176] Life expectancy in Greece is 80.3 years, above the OECD average of 79.5. [176] 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. [176]
A peer-reviewed comparison study of healthcare access in the two countries published in 2006 concluded that U.S. residents are one third less likely to have a regular medical doctor (80% vs 85%), one fourth more likely to have unmet healthcare needs (13% vs 11%), and are more than twice as likely to forgo needed medicines (1.7% vs 2.6%). [46]
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.
This is a list of countries by quality of healthcare as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . [ 1 ] The list includes 7 types of cancer along with strokes and heart attacks.
While an impending "doctor shortage" has been reported, from 2010 to 2018, the actively licensed U.S. physician-to-population ratio increased from 277 to 301 physicians per 100,000 people. Additionally, the number of female physicians, and osteopathic and Caribbean graduates have increased at a greater percentage.
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Healthcare, however, is a top national priority" The report stated that life expectancy and infant mortality rates are nearly the same as the USA's. Its doctor-to-patient ratios stand comparison to any country in Western Europe. Its annual total health spend per head, however, comes in at $251; just over a tenth of the UK's.