Cuba CU: Physicians: per 1000 People data was reported at 9.429 Ratio in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 9.188 Ratio for 2020. Cuba CU: Physicians: per 1000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 6.039 Ratio from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2021, with 38 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9.429 Ratio in 2021 and a record low of 0.822 Ratio in 1970. Cuba CU: Physicians: per 1000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cuba – Table CU.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics. Physicians include generalist and specialist medical practitioners.;World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD, supplemented by country data.;Weighted average;This is the Sustainable Development Goal indicator 3.c.1 [https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/].

Cuba was the country with the highest physician density, i.e. the number of physicians in relation to its population. There were 84 physicians per every 10,000 of Cuba's population, however, the most recent data was from 2018. Other countries with high physician density were mostly found in Europe.

In Mexico, the number of practicing doctors amounted to around 2.51 professionals per 1,000 inhabitants in 2021, an increase compared to the figures reported a year earlier when there were around 2.41 practicing physicians per every thousand people. During the last year depicted, the number of physicians in Mexico totaled approximately 324,000 professionals.

Density of doctors worldwide

In a global comparison, Mexico ranks in an middle category for density of medical doctors per 1,000 population, similar to Japan and Qatar. Among the countries in the upper bracket for highest density of doctors are Cuba, Georgia, Lithuania, and Greece. Along with Mexico’s moderate density of doctors, over 39 percent of the population was considered vulnerable due to lack of access to health services in Mexico as of 2022, up from around 21.5 percent a decade earlier.

Health care in Mexico

Nearly 33 million people in Mexico held public health insurance through Seguro Popular in 2020, which was replaced by a new institution at the beginning of that year, called INSABI (Instituto Nacional de Salud para el Bienestar). However, the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) led by a large margin as the largest provider of health insurance in the North American country.

Among OECD countries in 2022, South Korea had the highest rate of yearly visits to a doctor per capita. On average, people in South Korea visited the doctors 15.7 times per year in person. Health care utilization is an important indicator of the success of a country’s health care system. There are many factors that affect health care utilization including healthcare structure and the supply of health care providers.

OECD health systems

Healthcare systems globally include a variety of tools for accessing healthcare, including private insurance based systems, like in the U.S., and universal systems, like in the U.K. Health systems have varying costs among the OECD countries. Worldwide, Europe has the highest expenditures for health as a proportion of the GDP. Among all OECD countries, The United States had the highest share of government spending on health care. Recent estimates of current per capita health expenditures showed the United States also had, by far, the highest per capita spending on health worldwide.

Supply of health providers

Globally, the country with the highest physician density is Cuba, although most other countries with high number of physicians to population was found in Europe. The number of graduates of medicine impacts the number of available physicians in countries. Among OECD countries, Latvia had the highest rate of graduates of medicine, which was almost twice the rate of the OECD average.

Classification of health assessment components reported at Texas domestic medical screening examination of Cuban entrants, 2010–2015.

内科医生：每1000人在12-01-2021达9.429Ratio，相较于12-01-2020的9.188Ratio有所增长。内科医生：每1000人数据按年更新，12-01-1960至12-01-2021期间平均值为6.039Ratio，共38份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-2021，达9.429Ratio，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-1970，为0.822Ratio。CEIC提供的内科医生：每1000人数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于全球数据库的古巴 – Table CU.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics。

In 2023, Singapore dominated the ranking of the world's health and health systems, followed by Japan and South Korea. The health index score is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. The health and health system index score of the top ten countries with the best healthcare system in the world ranged between 82 and 86.9, measured on a scale of zero to 100.

Global Health Security Index  Numerous health and health system indexes have been developed to assess various attributes and aspects of a nation's healthcare system. One such measure is the Global Health Security (GHS) index. This index evaluates the ability of 195 nations to identify, assess, and mitigate biological hazards in addition to political and socioeconomic concerns, the quality of their healthcare systems, and their compliance with international finance and standards. In 2021, the United States was ranked at the top of the GHS index, but due to multiple reasons, the U.S. government failed to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The GHS Index evaluates capability and identifies preparation gaps; nevertheless, it cannot predict a nation's resource allocation in case of a public health emergency.

Universal Health Coverage Index  Another health index that is used globally by the members of the United Nations (UN) is the universal health care (UHC) service coverage index. The UHC index monitors the country's progress related to the sustainable developmental goal (SDG) number three. The UHC service coverage index tracks 14 indicators related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, service capacity, and access to care. The main target of universal health coverage is to ensure that no one is denied access to essential medical services due to financial hardships. In 2021, the UHC index scores ranged from as low as 21 to a high score of 91 across 194 countries.