Practising dentists

Per 100 000 inhabitants

Dentists as defined by ISCO 88 (code 2222) apply medical knowledge in the field of dentistry, improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods and conduct research. Dentistry is the provision of comprehensive care regarding teeth and oral cavity, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of aberrations and diseases. Dentists may be counted according to different concepts such as "practising", "professionally active" or "licensed to practice". Practising dentists provide services directly to patients.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Belgium	81.4	74.7 ^(b)	74.7	74.4	74.0	74.0	73.4	73.5	72.2	71.6	70.9	70.4
Bulgaria	56.7	83.0 ^(b)	80.8	78.1	82.8	83.6	84.2	84.9	84.3	82.8	86.1	84.8
Czech Republic	62.5	64.8 ^(b)	65.4	65.6	66.0	67.0	67.5	67.5	67.2	66.9	67.6	69.0
Denmark	86.1	85.8	86.0	85.1	85.3	85.7	85.5	84.9	83.7	79.3	77.8	..
Germany	72.8	73.4	73.9	74.0	74.8	75.3	75.6	75.9	76.6	77.4	78.5	79.5
Estonia	77.1	76.9	82.2	79.4	83.3	82.7	88.4 ^(b)	88.9	86.8	92.3	89.2	89.8
Ireland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Greece	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Spain	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
France	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Italy	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	88.0	89.2	90.4	91.5	92.8	94.2	96.1	92.6	92.2	93.7	94.6 ^(e)	96.0 ^(e)
Latvia	46.9	52.1	52.7	53.9	54.7	59.1	61.8 ^(b)	63.0	64.3	66.9	67.0	66.5
Lithuania	64.9	68.5	69.4	64.5	66.4	63.7	69.4	63.6	68.8	65.7	70.3	74.7
Luxembourg	62.5	59.6 ^(b)	62.3	64.5	64.9	68.1	78.7 ^(b)	76.8	79.4	80.6	81.2	82.5
Hungary	45.0	32.4 ^(be)	35.7	47.7 ^(b)	52.8	51.0	44.7 ^(b)	49.6	39.9 ^(b)	50.4 ^(b)	49.1	52.6
Malta	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	43.2	44.2
Netherlands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Austria	45.9	46.5	48.2	48.9	49.7	50.3	51.4	54.0	54.1	54.5	55.2	55.8
Poland	34.3	30.6	26.5	28.2	29.0	37.0 ^(b)	32.1 ^(b)	32.9	35.0	34.2	31.9	32.9
Portugal	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Romania	31.6	35.5	37.1	38.3	41.5	43.7	47.3	49.0	53.9	55.1	58.0	60.4
Slovenia	58.5	58.3	59.1	60.1	60.3	59.7	59.9	59.9	61.4	60.2	60.6	61.5
Slovakia	..	44.2	44.1	43.5	43.5	43.4	..	..	50.0	..	..	..
Finland	..	85.2	..	..	..	81.5	80.7	78.7	78.2	75.4	74.4	..
Sweden	81.9	80.9	81.3	81.9	81.6	82.8	82.4	83.2	82.8	81.0	80.2	..
United Kingdom	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	48.3	49.9	51.1	51.7
Iceland	100.2	100.6	100.0	100.2	99.5	98.3	97.4	94.1	94.4	94.8	92.3	94.0
Norway	81.5	80.3	80.4	80.8 ^(b)	81.2	80.3	84.2	88.1	87.1	87.8	86.7	87.7
Switzerland	48.3	48.3	47.5	48.1	49.0	49.8	50.6	51.9	52.1	52.1	52.0	52.5
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	64.7	66.6	68.0	68.1	69.4	71.9	72.4	72.7	73.6	74.2	74.3 ^(b)	71.5
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

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

Source: Eurostat