Practising physicians

Per 100 000 inhabitants

Physicians (medical doctors) as defined by ISCO 88 (code 2221) apply preventive and curative measures, improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods and conduct research in the area of medicine and health care. Physicians may be counted according to different concepts such as "practising", "professionally active" or "licensed to practice". Practising physicians provide services directly to patients.

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	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Belgium	280.1 ^(b)	282.9	284.9	285.9	285.7	286.8	287.1	288.6	290.5	292.1	292.5	292.0
Bulgaria	344.2	336.9	339.0	351.9	359.5	352.2	364.0	364.8	364.0	360.1	368.5	371.1
Czech Republic	307.8	336.9 ^(b)	344.1	350.3	352.3	351.5	355.4	356.4	356.2	354.2	356.2	358.0
Denmark	288.2	291.1	293.3	303.5	308.1	322.0	330.9	338.5	340.1	342.7	348.2	..
Germany	320.9	325.9	330.7	333.6	336.7	339.0	341.1	345.3	350.3	355.8	363.6	373.1
Estonia	326.8	326.4	317.4	314.1	316.0	321.3	316.5 ^(b)	319.0	325.7	333.3	326.7	323.5
Ireland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Greece	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Spain	307.6	330.1	309.2	302.6	325.7	337.3	376.7 ^(b)	362.4	365.0	350.1	354.2	377.9
France	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Italy	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	367.5	..
Cyprus	256.6	259.4	262.1	262.4	260.0	265.6	260.8	252.4	273.4	279.7	287.0 ^(e)	301.7 ^(e)
Latvia	271.7	287.4	266.7	275.5	278.6	285.5	288.1 ^(b)	293.7	303.9	310.7	299.5	291.1
Lithuania	371.5	362.7	362.0	367.5	362.7	356.5	362.0	365.3	371.8	369.6	365.1	372.0
Luxembourg	249.3	215.0 ^(b)	221.1	225.7	237.8	242.3	255.8	257.7	269.4	271.8	271.0	277.3
Hungary	310.4	268.2 ^(be)	289.1	319.5 ^(b)	324.7	333.7	278.1 ^(b)	303.6	280.3 ^(b)	309.1 ^(b)	302.1	286.9
Malta	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	303.6	307.5
Netherlands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Austria	376.8	385.3	396.1	403.1	411.4	420.1	431.7	445.0	453.5	459.6	467.7	478.0
Poland	226.4	221.1	226.7	230.4	243.4 ^(b)	229.0 ^(b)	213.8 ^(b)	217.9	219.1	216.1	217.1	217.9
Portugal	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Romania	188.0	192.7	196.9	195.7	199.3	207.8	217.1	215.6	212.1	221.3	225.7	236.9
Slovenia	212.6	215.1	217.1	222.6	224.7	229.8	234.5	236.2	239.5	240.1	241.0	243.0
Slovakia	..	323.3	322.4	320.0	314.6	314.7	..	..	300.2	..	..	..
Finland	240.1	249.9	250.0	252.7	256.4	259.0	263.4	268.2	268.9	272.0	..	..
Sweden	302.4	308.6	318.5	328.4	337.3	343.5	350.8	359.8	367.7	373.4	380.2	..
United Kingdom	191.2	195.8	200.8	208.4	217.7	231.3	239.4	244.9	248.7	257.6	266.8	271.2
Iceland	338.2	344.2	347.4	357.9	361.6	361.6	360.6 ^(b)	359.8	361.7	364.8	366.4	360.3
Norway	328.7	338.0	354.0	327.2 ^(b)	327.5	344.4	361.9	379.1	389.8	400.3	402.3	406.8
Switzerland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	381.7	383.3	380.7
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	231.3	233.6	237.6	238.3	243.6	249.7	249.8	253.3	265.8	266.0	266.6 ^(b)	278.4
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

(..) - not available
(b) - break in series
(e) - estimated

Source: Eurostat