As of May 2024, the total number of professionally active physicians in the United States amounted to 1,109,460 physicians. From a state perspective, California had the most number of active physicians with over 119 thousand physicians, followed by New York. On the other hand, with just 1,245 physicians, Wyoming had the least number of active physicians in the United States.

ONC uses the SK&A Office-based Provider Database to calculate the counts of medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants at the state and count level from 2011 through 2013. These counts are grouped as a total, as well as segmented by each provider type and separately as counts of primary care providers.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees: Education and Health Services: Offices of Physicians in Michigan (SMU26000006562110001SA) from Jan 2001 to Jan 2025 about physicians, health, MI, services, employment, and USA.

Health professionals, especially primary care physicians, are in high demand in many parts of the U.S. Some areas are experiencing health professional shortages. This map shows the ratio of population to primary care physicians in the U.S. Areas in dark red show where there are less primary care physicians per person.The data comes from County Health Rankings, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, measure the health of nearly all counties in the nation and rank them within states. The layer used in the map comes from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, and the full documentation for the layer can be found here.County data are suppressed if, for both years of available data, the population reported by agencies is less than 50% of the population reported in Census or less than 80% of agencies measuring crimes reported data.

As of 2018, the largest distribution of U.S. physicians was between the ages of 55 and 65 years old. At that time about 29 percent of physicians fell within this age group. With just 11.2 percent of all physicians, the smallest distribution of U.S. physicians was among those aged 35 years or younger. Data suggests that in the U.S. the average age of medical students is around 24 years old and the average age of matriculants is about 31.

U.S. Physician demographics  

It is estimated that one of the best ways to combat aging population health needs is to increase the number of doctors practicing in the U.S. In general, the number of physicians in the U.S. has been on the rise. Every year about 20 thousand new physicians join the U.S. workforce. Despite an increase in the number of physicians the number of active physicians per 10,000 people has remained relatively stagnant in recent years. As of 2019, the specialty with the largest number of physicians was psychiatry, followed by surgery.

Physician compensation  

Physician compensation varies significantly between regions and genders. With graduates owing an average of 190,000 U.S. dollars in student loans upon graduation, equal compensation has become especially important. However, women in the medical industry make significantly less income than their male counterparts. As of 2019, female physicians earned between 51 and 92 thousand U.S. dollars less than male physicians. Regionally, there are also significant differences. As of 2018, physicians working in the North Central U.S. had higher annual compensation than those in other areas. Those working in the Northeast had the lowest annual compensation.

According to a survey carried out in the United States in 2023, willingness to share health data dropped when compared to the same survey question asked in 2020 and 2022. In 2023, 64 percent of adults would share health data with a doctor or clinician, while in 2020, 72 percent of respondents were willing to share health data with doctors or clinicians.

Data on visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments and hospital emergency departments by selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time. Note that the data file available here has more recent years of data than what is shown in the PDF or Excel version. Data for 2017 physician office visits are not available. SOURCE: NCHS, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. For more information on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, see the corresponding Appendix entries at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17_appendix.pdf.

The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), collects data on visits to physician offices to describe patterns of ambulatory care delivery in the United States. As part of NAMCS, the Physician Induction Interview collects information about practice characteristics at physician offices. Partway through the 2020 NAMCS, NCHS added questions to the Physician Induction Interview to assess physician experiences related to COVID-19 in office-based settings. The data include nationally representative estimates of experiences related to COVID-19 among office-based physicians in the United States, including: shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the past 3 months; the ability to test for COVID-19 in the past 3 months; providers testing positive for COVID-19 in the past 3 months; turning away COVID-19 patients in the past 3 months; and telemedicine or telehealth technology use before and after March 2020. Estimates were derived from interviews with physicians in periods 3 and 4 of 2020 NAMCS and periods 1 through 4 of 2021 NAMCS, which occurred between December 15, 2020 and May 6, 2022. The data are considered preliminary, and the results may change with the final data release.

All Employees: Health Care: Offices of Physicians in New Jersey was 87.70000 Thous. of Persons in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, All Employees: Health Care: Offices of Physicians in New Jersey reached a record high of 87.70000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 39.50000 in January of 1990. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for All Employees: Health Care: Offices of Physicians in New Jersey - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

This dataset is about books and is filtered where the book is Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War : a biographical dictionary, featuring 7 columns including author, BNB id, book, book publisher, and ISBN. The preview is ordered by publication date (descending).

Indonesia BioNER Dataset

This dataset taken from online health consultation platform Alodokter.com which has been annotated by two medical doctors. Data were annotated using IOB in CoNLL format. Dataset contains 2600 medical answers by doctors from 2017-2020. Two medical experts were assigned to annotate the data into two entity types: DISORDERS and ANATOMY. The topics of answers are: diarrhea, HIV-AIDS, nephrolithiasis and TBC, which marked as high-risk dataset from WHO. This… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/abid/indonesia-bioner-dataset.

Antallet af læger i USA steg til 2,77 pr. 1000 personer i 2019 fra 2,74 pr. 1000 personer i 2018. Aktuelle værdier, historiske data, prognoser, statistik, diagrammer og økonomisk kalender - Usa - Medicinske læger.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees: Education and Health Services: Offices of Physicians in Colorado (SMU08000006562110001SA) from Jan 2002 to Jan 2025 about physicians, health, CO, services, employment, and USA.

This dataset provides information on 169 in Colorado, United States as of March, 2025. It includes details such as email addresses (where publicly available), phone numbers (where publicly available), and geocoded addresses. Explore market trends, identify potential business partners, and gain valuable insights into the industry. Download a complimentary sample of 10 records to see what's included.

Graph and download economic data for Hours Worked for Health Care and Social Assistance: Offices of Physicians (NAICS 62111) in the United States (IPURN62111L010000000) from 1987 to 2023 about offices, physicians, healthcare, social assistance, health, NAICS, IP, hours, and USA.

This dataset provides information on 166 in Minnesota, United States as of March, 2025. It includes details such as email addresses (where publicly available), phone numbers (where publicly available), and geocoded addresses. Explore market trends, identify potential business partners, and gain valuable insights into the industry. Download a complimentary sample of 10 records to see what's included.

Graph and download economic data for Employed full time: Wage and salary workers: Physicians and surgeons occupations: 16 years and over (LEU0254487600A) from 2000 to 2019 about surgeons, physicians, medical, occupation, full-time, salaries, workers, 16 years +, wages, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees: Health Care: Offices of Physicians in Philadelphia, PA (MD) (DISCONTINUED) (SMU42379646562110001SA) from Jan 1990 to Dec 2014 about physicians, Philadelphia, health, PA, services, employment, and USA.

United States PPI: Health Care: Outpatient: Physician data was reported at 109.100 Mar2009=100 in Oct 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 109.200 Mar2009=100 for Sep 2018. United States PPI: Health Care: Outpatient: Physician data is updated monthly, averaging 106.350 Mar2009=100 from Mar 2009 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 116 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 109.200 Mar2009=100 in Sep 2018 and a record low of 100.000 Mar2009=100 in Apr 2009. United States PPI: Health Care: Outpatient: Physician data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.I017: Producer Price Index: By Commodities.

This dataset describes the number and density of health care services in each census tract in the United States. The data includes counts, per capita densities, and area densities per tract for many types of businesses in the health care sector, including doctors, dentists, mental health providers, hospitals, nursing homes, and pharmacies.