Which country has the most doctors per person?

Cuba has the most doctors per person: 9.54 doctors per 1,000 people (2021). Next come Monaco (8.61 doctors per 1,000 people) and the Seychelles (6.60 doctors per 1,000 people).

Which country has the fewest doctors per person?

The South Sudan, with 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people (2022).

What is the typical doctors of a country?

The median of the 178 countries is 1.67 doctors per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Physicians — general practitioners and specialists — for every 1,000 people. Source: World Bank, mostly 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Countries by doctors per 1,000 people

Physicians — general practitioners and specialists — for every 1,000 people. 178 countries, highest first. World Bank, mostly 2022

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Highest

9.54

Cuba

Median country

1.67

half above, half below

Lowest

0.04

South Sudan

Countries by doctors per 1,000 people, World Bank, mostly 2022
#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Year	Region
1	Cuba	9.54	2021	Caribbean
2	Monaco	8.61	2020	Western Europe
3	Seychelles	6.60	2022	Eastern Africa
4	Greece	6.58	2022	Southern Europe
5	Portugal	5.85	2022	Southern Europe
6	Georgia	5.64	2023	Western Asia
7	Austria	5.52	2023	Western Europe
=8	Argentina	5.11	2023	South America
=8	Russia	5.11	2022	Eastern Europe
10	Andorra	5.07	2023	Southern Europe
11	Norway	4.97	2023	Northern Europe
12	Belarus	4.72	2023	Eastern Europe
13	Uruguay	4.67	2022	South America
14	San Marino	4.63	2023	Southern Europe
15	Germany	4.53	2022	Western Europe
16	Malta	4.51	2022	Southern Europe
17	Denmark	4.50	2021	Northern Europe
18	Switzerland	4.48	2022	Western Europe
19	Lithuania	4.47	2022	Northern Europe
20	Sweden	4.41	2021	Northern Europe
21	Iceland	4.37	2023	Northern Europe
22	Czechia	4.35	2022	Eastern Europe
23	Bulgaria	4.33	2022	Eastern Europe
24	Spain	4.29	2022	Southern Europe
25	Saint Lucia	4.23	2020	Caribbean
26	Italy	4.19	2022	Southern Europe
27	Trinidad and Tobago	4.16	2021	Caribbean
28	Mongolia	4.13	2022	Eastern Asia
29	Australia	4.09	2022	Australia and New Zealand
30	Poland	4.03	2023	Eastern Europe
31	Moldova	4.02	2023	Eastern Europe
32	Croatia	3.91	2022	Southern Europe
33	Paraguay	3.89	2022	South America
=34	Ireland	3.88	2023	Northern Europe
=34	Netherlands	3.88	2022	Western Europe
36	Israel	3.80	2023	Western Asia
37	Kazakhstan	3.75	2023	Central Asia
38	Slovakia	3.70	2022	Eastern Europe
39	United States	3.68	2022	Northern America
40	Romania	3.63	2022	Eastern Europe
=41	Finland	3.61	2021	Northern Europe
=41	New Zealand	3.61	2022	Australia and New Zealand
43	Belgium	3.57	2022	Western Europe
44	Cyprus	3.56	2022	Western Asia
45	Ukraine	3.53	2023	Eastern Europe
46	Estonia	3.47	2022	Northern Europe
47	Hungary	3.46	2022	Eastern Europe
48	Saudi Arabia	3.41	2023	Western Asia
49	Latvia	3.40	2022	Northern Europe
50	Slovenia	3.37	2022	Southern Europe
51	Armenia	3.36	2022	Western Asia
52	Chile	3.33	2023	South America
53	United Kingdom	3.30	2023	Northern Europe
54	France	3.28	2022	Western Europe
55	Azerbaijan	3.19	2022	Western Asia
56	China	3.11	2022	Eastern Asia
57	Serbia	3.10	2022	Southern Europe
58	Saint Kitts and Nevis	3.09	2018	Caribbean
59	Qatar	3.02	2023	Western Asia
60	United Arab Emirates	2.99	2023	Western Asia
61	Barbados	2.96	2022	Caribbean
62	North Macedonia	2.94	2022	Southern Europe
63	Jordan	2.85	2022	Western Asia
64	Singapore	2.83	2022	South-Eastern Asia
65	Canada	2.82	2023	Northern America
66	Uzbekistan	2.81	2021	Central Asia
67	Montenegro	2.78	2023	Southern Europe
68	Costa Rica	2.69	2022	Central America
69	Lebanon	2.68	2020	Western Asia
70	Japan	2.65	2022	Eastern Asia
71	South Korea	2.61	2022	Eastern Asia
72	Mexico	2.59	2022	Central America
73	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.58	2019	Southern Europe
74	Colombia	2.54	2023	South America
75	Dominican Republic	2.43	2023	Caribbean
76	Brazil	2.36	2023	South America
77	Malaysia	2.34	2023	South-Eastern Asia
78	Ecuador	2.31	2020	South America
79	Kuwait	2.27	2020	Western Asia
=80	Maldives	2.24	2019	Southern Asia
=80	Turkey	2.24	2022	Western Asia
82	Oman	1.99	2022	Western Asia
83	Turkmenistan	1.93	2023	Central Asia
84	Brunei	1.89	2021	South-Eastern Asia
85	Albania	1.88	2020	Southern Europe
86	Tajikistan	1.87	2023	Central Asia
=87	Iran	1.81	2023	Southern Asia
=87	Palau	1.81	2023	Micronesia
89	Peru	1.69	2023	South America
90	Algeria	1.66	2022	Northern Africa
91	Panama	1.63	2022	Central America
92	El Salvador	1.62	2023	Central America
93	Kyrgyzstan	1.57	2023	Central Asia
94	Syria	1.52	2021	Western Asia
95	Mauritius	1.44	2022	Eastern Africa
96	Guyana	1.39	2020	South America
97	Grenada	1.38	2018	Caribbean
98	Suriname	1.36	2023	South America
99	Tunisia	1.32	2021	Northern Africa
=100	Bolivia	1.28	2021	South America
=100	Guatemala	1.28	2020	Central America
=102	Dominica	1.16	2018	Caribbean
=102	Pakistan	1.16	2021	Southern Asia
104	Sri Lanka	1.14	2023	Southern Asia
105	Vietnam	1.11	2021	South-Eastern Asia
106	Belize	1.09	2018	Central America
107	Iraq	1.02	2022	Western Asia
=108	Nepal	1.01	2023	Southern Asia
=108	Tonga	1.01	2021	Polynesia
110	Micronesia	0.97	2020	Micronesia
=111	Philippines	0.79	2021	South-Eastern Asia
=111	South Africa	0.79	2022	Southern Africa
113	Myanmar	0.76	2019	South-Eastern Asia
114	Timor-Leste	0.75	2020	South-Eastern Asia
=115	Bahrain	0.74	2020	Western Asia
=115	Morocco	0.74	2021	Northern Africa
117	Cabo Verde	0.73	2023	Western Africa
=118	Bangladesh	0.72	2023	Southern Asia
=118	India	0.72	2020	Southern Asia
120	Nicaragua	0.68	2018	Central America
121	Egypt	0.67	2020	Northern Africa
=122	Eswatini	0.56	2023	Southern Africa
=122	Samoa	0.56	2021	Polynesia
=124	Bhutan	0.55	2022	Southern Asia
=124	Namibia	0.55	2022	Southern Africa
126	Thailand	0.54	2021	South-Eastern Asia
=127	Gabon	0.52	2022	Middle Africa
=127	Indonesia	0.52	2023	South-Eastern Asia
129	Honduras	0.49	2020	Central America
=130	Jamaica	0.46	2023	Caribbean
=130	São Tomé and Principe	0.46	2022	Middle Africa
132	Comoros	0.42	2022	Eastern Africa
=133	Botswana	0.38	2023	Southern Africa
=133	Nigeria	0.38	2023	Western Africa
135	Laos	0.33	2022	South-Eastern Asia
=136	Afghanistan	0.32	2023	Southern Asia
=136	Zambia	0.32	2022	Eastern Africa
=138	Haiti	0.29	2022	Caribbean
=138	Kenya	0.29	2023	Eastern Africa
140	Ghana	0.27	2023	Western Africa
141	Mauritania	0.26	2022	Western Africa
142	Guinea-Bissau	0.25	2022	Western Africa
=143	Angola	0.24	2022	Middle Africa
=143	Lesotho	0.24	2022	Southern Africa
=143	Solomon Islands	0.24	2023	Melanesia
146	Benin	0.22	2023	Western Africa
=147	Cambodia	0.21	2019	South-Eastern Asia
=147	Djibouti	0.21	2022	Eastern Africa
=147	DR Congo	0.21	2022	Middle Africa
=147	Guinea	0.21	2022	Western Africa
=151	Mali	0.19	2023	Western Africa
=151	Uganda	0.19	2022	Eastern Africa
=153	Liberia	0.18	2022	Western Africa
=153	Mozambique	0.18	2022	Eastern Africa
=155	Congo	0.17	2022	Middle Africa
=155	Côte d'Ivoire	0.17	2023	Western Africa
=155	Madagascar	0.17	2022	Eastern Africa
158	Vanuatu	0.16	2019	Melanesia
=159	Burkina Faso	0.15	2022	Western Africa
=159	Equatorial Guinea	0.15	2022	Middle Africa
=161	Cameroon	0.14	2022	Middle Africa
=161	Ethiopia	0.14	2023	Eastern Africa
=161	Zimbabwe	0.14	2023	Eastern Africa
=164	Sierra Leone	0.13	2022	Western Africa
=164	Tanzania	0.13	2022	Eastern Africa
166	Senegal	0.11	2023	Western Africa
167	Yemen	0.10	2023	Western Asia
=168	Chad	0.09	2023	Middle Africa
=168	Eritrea	0.09	2022	Eastern Africa
=168	Gambia	0.09	2023	Western Africa
=168	Rwanda	0.09	2022	Eastern Africa
=172	Burundi	0.08	2022	Eastern Africa
=172	Togo	0.08	2022	Western Africa
174	Central African Republic	0.07	2023	Middle Africa
175	Papua New Guinea	0.06	2023	Melanesia
176	Malawi	0.05	2022	Eastern Africa
=177	Niger	0.04	2023	Western Africa
=177	South Sudan	0.04	2022	Eastern Africa

No World Bank figure for 16 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Fiji, Kiribati, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Nauru, North Korea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Somalia, Sudan, Taiwan, Vatican City, Venezuela.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Palestine	2.17	Status disputed

Questions

Which country has the most doctors per person?: Cuba has the most doctors per person: 9.54 doctors per 1,000 people (2021). Next come Monaco (8.61 doctors per 1,000 people) and the Seychelles (6.60 doctors per 1,000 people).
Which country has the fewest doctors per person?: The South Sudan, with 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people (2022).
What is the typical doctors of a country?: The median of the 178 countries is 1.67 doctors per 1,000 people: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.
Where do the figures come from?: Physicians — general practitioners and specialists — for every 1,000 people. Source: World Bank, mostly 2022. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.