Medical graduates in selected countries 2019

This statistic depicts the number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants in OECD countries in 2019. In that year, 15.8 out of 100,000 people in Australia were graduates of medicine.

Graduates of medicine in OECD countries in 2019 (per 100,000 population)

Characteristic	Graduates per 100,000 population
Ireland	24.8
Latvia	23.5
Denmark*	23
Lithuania	20.4
Italy	17.5
Belgium	17.5
Slovak Republic	17.2
Czech Republic	16.1
Portugal	15.8
Australia	15.8
Hungary*	15.7
Netherlands	15.1
Spain	13.9
Austria	13.9
Slovenia	13.7
Sweden	13.4
Turkey	13.1
United Kingdom	13
Greece*	12.5
Germany	12.3
Mexico*	12.2
Finland	11.9
Switzerland	11.8
Iceland	11.3
Norway	11.3
Poland*	10.5
Estonia	10.4
New Zealand	9.9
France*	9.5
Chile	9.1
United States	8.1
Canada	7.6
Korea	7.4
Israel	7.2
Japan	7.1

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Release date

November 2021

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OECD

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

Values are from 2018.
* In Denmark, the number refers to new doctors receiving an authorization to practice, which may result in an over-estimation if these include foreign-trained doctors.

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