In 2023, there were almost 52 doctors per 10,000 population in Russia. The density of doctors in the country has gradually increased in recent years after a decline in 2015, when the figure fell to around 46 medical professionals per 10,000 residents. How many doctors work in Russia? The number of doctors in the country grew by 85,800 between 2015 and 2023. In total, approximately 759,000 physicians were employed in healthcare in Russia during that year. Over 567,000 medical doctors worked in the public sector, including educational, scientific, cultural, healthcare, and social services organizations, in 2022. Importance of doctors’ density during COVID-19 During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, countries with a low density of physicians have been suffering from limited healthcare resources and unequal access to medical assistance, as highlighted by the International Labor Organization Department of Statistics (Ilostat). Russia is the only non-high-income country among those with the highest doctors’ density worldwide. There were five infectious disease specialists per 100,000 inhabitants in the country as of April 2020.

The average number of physicians per 1,000 inhabitants in Russia was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 0.02 physicians (-0.53 percent). The number of physicians is estimated to amount to 3.76 physicians in 2029. Depicted here is the average number of physicians per one thousand people. Thereby physicians include medical specialists as well as general practitioners. A data point thereby denotes the weighted average across the depicted geographical unit.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Density of physicians of Russian Federation dropped by 8.60% from 4.2 number per thousand population in 2019 to 3.8 number per thousand population in 2020. Since the 1.01% upward trend in 2018, density of physicians slumped by 7.09% in 2020.

3.4 (Physicians per 1,000 population) in 2015. The total number of physicians includes those with higher medical education, employed at the end of the year in health care, public health institutions, social security institutions, research institutes, institutions of training, health offices' personnel and others

According to a survey among Russian doctors from the end of March 2021, when only five Russians received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine per 100 population, the main reason behind the low vaccination rate was a general hesitancy among the population to get vaccinated against the disease. Furthermore, 46 percent of medical professionals believed that Russians distrusted domestic vaccines existing at that time.