Australia Physicians: per 1000 People data was reported at 3.981 Ratio in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.906 Ratio for 2020. Australia Physicians: per 1000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 2.491 Ratio from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2021, with 43 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.981 Ratio in 2021 and a record low of 1.100 Ratio in 1961. Australia Physicians: per 1000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.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/].

Physicians (per 1,000 people) in Australia was reported at 3.981 in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Physicians - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on September of 2025.

The average for 2020 based on 2 countries was 3.67 doctors per 1,000 people. The highest value was in Australia: 3.9 doctors per 1,000 people and the lowest value was in New Zealand: 3.43 doctors per 1,000 people. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2020 based on 27 countries was 3.56 doctors per 1,000 people. The highest value was in Austria: 5.35 doctors per 1,000 people and the lowest value was in Brazil: 2.05 doctors per 1,000 people. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2019, Queensland was the Australian state with the highest density of general practitioners with ***** GPs per 100,000 of the population. The Australian Capital Territory had the fewest number of GPs in relation to its population.

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.

Medical Doctors in Australia increased to 4.22 per 1000 people in 2021 from 4.10 per 1000 people in 2020. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Australia Medical Doctors.

In 2022, Switzerland had the highest number of practicing nurses per capita, that is, for every 1,000 population there were 18 practicing nurses in Switzerland. This is followed by Norway and Iceland. This statistic portrays the number of practicing nurses in selected countries as of 2021, per 1,000 population.

Nurses in Australia increased to 14.45 per 1000 people in 2023 from 14.12 per 1000 people in 2022. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Australia Nurses.

内科医生：每1000人在12-01-2021达3.981Ratio，相较于12-01-2020的3.906Ratio有所增长。内科医生：每1000人数据按年更新，12-01-1961至12-01-2021期间平均值为2.491Ratio，共43份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-2021，达3.981Ratio，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-1961，为1.100Ratio。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澳大利亚 – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics。

Background: The population of Chinese physicians is frequently threatened by abnormal death, including death by overwork or homicide. This is not only a health problem, but also a social problem that has attracted the attention of both hospitals and the government.Objective: This study aims to analyze the characteristics of abnormal death in physicians in Chinese hospitals from 2007 to 2020 and to investigate the relationship between abnormal death and physician workload, in order to provide information for policy makers and request improvement technologies.Methods: A mixed research method was used. In order to ensure accuracy and completeness, a relatively comprehensive search was conducted using multiple heterogeneous data sources on the abnormal death of physicians in Chinese hospitals from 2007 to 2020. The collected cases were then descriptively analyzed using the work-related overwork death risk concept framework and the deductive grounded theory approach. In addition, the workload of physicians was calculated between 2007 and 2019 based on three important workload indicators.Results: Between 2007 and 2020, 207 abnormal death events of physicians on the Chinese mainland were publicly reported. Among the 207 victims, the majority (~79%) died from overwork or sudden death. The number of victims who were men was 5.5 times higher than that of women, and victims were between the ages of 31–50 years. These physicians mainly belonged to the departments of surgery, anesthesiology, internal medicine, and orthopedics. Further analysis of the direct causes of death in cases of overwork death showed that 51 physicians (31.1%) died from cardiogenic diseases. Additionally, the per capita workload of physicians in China increased drastically by about 42% from 2007 to 2019, far exceeding physician workloads in Europe, Asia, and Australia (number of inpatients per physician in 2017: 72 vs. 55, 50, 45). The analysis revealed that there was a strong correlation between the number of abnormal deaths of physicians in China and the number of inpatients per physician (r = 0.683, P = 0.01).Conclusion: High-intensity working conditions may be positively correlated with the number of abnormal deaths among physicians. Smart hospital technologies have the potential to alleviate this situation.

The Telehealth Services industry’s performance has slumped compared to its performance in the 2019-20 base year. Revenue is expected to have fallen at an annualised 20.7% over the five years through 2024-25. This overall plummet is because lockdowns and travel restrictions, which forced Australians to use telehealth instead of regular face-to-face consultations, caused revenue to surge to unprecedented, unsustainable highs. Revenue for telehealth service providers plunged in 2021-22 as pandemic-era restrictions eased and people returned towards their regular habits. Still, telehealth’s benefits have stuck around, which has seen more and more people embrace the service in subsequent years. People in the 65-plus age group have been using the internet more than ever before, which has provided them with the familiarity required to engage with telehealth services. This age group is more likely to require doctors’ services than any other and includes many individuals with Commonwealth concession cards, which makes them eligible for bulk-billing services. The incentive for doctors to offer bulk-billing was tripled in November 2023. This has made doctors more likely to provide bulk-billing, proving lucrative for telehealth providers, who can now lower the cost of consultations for their patients and still derive the same income, allowing them to better compete with face-to-face clinics that already offered lower prices. The perceived level of anonymity that telehealth provides has encouraged people to seek out treatment for conditions like obesity and erectile dysfunction. This has supported telehealth calls from people wanting prescriptions for popular drugs like GLP-1 agonists – such as Wegovy and Ozempic – or sildenafil and tadalafil, better known as Viagra and Cialis. This trend is benefiting industry revenue, propelling an anticipated 10.1% surge in 2024-25, to $465.4 million.The Telehealth Services industry will benefit from people moving out of the suburbs and into regional Australia, an area with fewer doctors per capita, which will encourage these new residents to engage with telehealth services. Revenue is forecast to swell at an annualised 11.5% over the five years through 2029-30, to reach $803.3 million.

COVID-19 rate of death, or the known deaths divided by confirmed cases, was over ten percent in Yemen, the only country that has 1,000 or more cases. This according to a calculation that combines coronavirus stats on both deaths and registered cases for 221 different countries. Note that death rates are not the same as the chance of dying from an infection or the number of deaths based on an at-risk population. By April 26, 2022, the virus had infected over 510.2 million people worldwide, and led to a loss of 6.2 million. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. Note that Statista aims to also provide domestic source material for a more complete picture, and not to just look at one particular source. Examples are these statistics on the confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia or the COVID-19 cases in Italy, both of which are from domestic sources. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

A word on the flaws of numbers like this

People are right to ask whether these numbers are at all representative or not for several reasons. First, countries worldwide decide differently on who gets tested for the virus, meaning that comparing case numbers or death rates could to some extent be misleading. Germany, for example, started testing relatively early once the country’s first case was confirmed in Bavaria in January 2020, whereas Italy tests for the coronavirus postmortem. Second, not all people go to see (or can see, due to testing capacity) a doctor when they have mild symptoms. Countries like Norway and the Netherlands, for example, recommend people with non-severe symptoms to just stay at home. This means not all cases are known all the time, which could significantly alter the death rate as it is presented here. Third and finally, numbers like this change very frequently depending on how the pandemic spreads or the national healthcare capacity. It is therefore recommended to look at other (freely accessible) content that dives more into specifics, such as the coronavirus testing capacity in India or the number of hospital beds in the UK. Only with additional pieces of information can you get the full picture, something that this statistic in its current state simply cannot provide.