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Physicians licensed to practice, head count

Indicator full name: Physicians licensed to practice, head count

Unit: number of professionals

Dimensions:

  • Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
  • Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP)
  • Year of measure (YEAR)

Years data is available: 1960—2021

Indicator is part of data set(s):

Last updated: 22 November 2023

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Countries with no data (21): 
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Bulgaria
  • France
  • Georgia
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Monaco
  • North Macedonia
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Russian Federation
  • San Marino
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Switzerland
  • Türkiye
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
(Sub)regional averages available for: 
  • Commonwealth of Independent States
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European database on human and technical resources for health

Indicators: 125
Updated: 22 November 2023

HlthRes-DB provides a wide range of statistics on human and technical resources for health and offers data on non-monetary health care resources collected through the joint work of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and WHO/Europe


Human resources indicators: Indicators include the number and density of a wide range of health personnel (such as physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and health care assistants), according to three different concepts (those practising, professionally active and licensed to practice). Information on employment in hospitals and numbers of medical and other graduates is also available. It is currently available in English and Russian.


Technical resources data: Data include the number and density of hospitals and hospital beds, stratified by ownership of facility (public, non-profit-making private and for-profit private), in addition to the number of beds for long-term care.

HlthRes-DB also contains indicators on the availability of the following medical equipment: computed tomography (CT) scanners, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units, positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, gamma cameras, digital subtraction angiography units, mammographs, radiation therapy equipment and lithotriptors.


Information before 2011 is not verified.

The 2022 Revision of UN World Population Prospects was used for estimates.
 
Indicator notes
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Physicians licensed to practice, total number Indicator code: lic.phys Physicians licensed to practice include practising and other (non-practising) physicians who are registered and entitled to practice as health care professionals. Inclusion - Physicians who provide services directly to patients - Physicians for whom their medical education is a prerequisite for the execution of the job - Physicians for whom their medical education is NOT a prerequisite for the execution of the job - Physicians licensed to practice but who due to various reasons are not economically active (e.g. unemployed or retired) - Physicians working abroad Exclusion - Dentists and stomatologists/dental surgeons Note: The number should be at the end of the calendar year.
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