Which country in Asia has the most doctors per person?

Georgia has the most doctors per person in Asia: 5.64 doctors per 1,000 people (2023). Next come Mongolia (4.13 doctors per 1,000 people) and Israel (3.80 doctors per 1,000 people).

Which country in Asia has the fewest doctors per person?

Yemen, with 0.10 doctors per 1,000 people (2023).

What is the typical doctors of a country in Asia?

The median of the 46 countries in Asia is 1.91 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 2023. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Asia by doctors

Physicians — general practitioners and specialists — for every 1,000 people. 46 countries in Asia, highest first. World Bank, mostly 2023

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Highest

5.64

Georgia

Median country

1.91

half above, half below

Lowest

0.10

Yemen

Countries in Asia by doctors, World Bank, mostly 2023
#	Country	Per 1,000 people	Year	Region
1	Georgia	5.64	2023	Western Asia
2	Mongolia	4.13	2022	Eastern Asia
3	Israel	3.80	2023	Western Asia
4	Kazakhstan	3.75	2023	Central Asia
5	Cyprus	3.56	2022	Western Asia
6	Saudi Arabia	3.41	2023	Western Asia
7	Armenia	3.36	2022	Western Asia
8	Azerbaijan	3.19	2022	Western Asia
9	China	3.11	2022	Eastern Asia
10	Qatar	3.02	2023	Western Asia
11	United Arab Emirates	2.99	2023	Western Asia
12	Jordan	2.85	2022	Western Asia
13	Singapore	2.83	2022	South-Eastern Asia
14	Uzbekistan	2.81	2021	Central Asia
15	Lebanon	2.68	2020	Western Asia
16	Japan	2.65	2022	Eastern Asia
17	South Korea	2.61	2022	Eastern Asia
18	Malaysia	2.34	2023	South-Eastern Asia
19	Kuwait	2.27	2020	Western Asia
=20	Maldives	2.24	2019	Southern Asia
=20	Turkey	2.24	2022	Western Asia
22	Oman	1.99	2022	Western Asia
23	Turkmenistan	1.93	2023	Central Asia
24	Brunei	1.89	2021	South-Eastern Asia
25	Tajikistan	1.87	2023	Central Asia
26	Iran	1.81	2023	Southern Asia
27	Kyrgyzstan	1.57	2023	Central Asia
28	Syria	1.52	2021	Western Asia
29	Pakistan	1.16	2021	Southern Asia
30	Sri Lanka	1.14	2023	Southern Asia
31	Vietnam	1.11	2021	South-Eastern Asia
32	Iraq	1.02	2022	Western Asia
33	Nepal	1.01	2023	Southern Asia
34	Philippines	0.79	2021	South-Eastern Asia
35	Myanmar	0.76	2019	South-Eastern Asia
36	Timor-Leste	0.75	2020	South-Eastern Asia
37	Bahrain	0.74	2020	Western Asia
=38	Bangladesh	0.72	2023	Southern Asia
=38	India	0.72	2020	Southern Asia
40	Bhutan	0.55	2022	Southern Asia
41	Thailand	0.54	2021	South-Eastern Asia
42	Indonesia	0.52	2023	South-Eastern Asia
43	Laos	0.33	2022	South-Eastern Asia
44	Afghanistan	0.32	2023	Southern Asia
45	Cambodia	0.21	2019	South-Eastern Asia
46	Yemen	0.10	2023	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: North Korea, Taiwan.

Territories and other places

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

Place	Per 1,000 people	Status
Palestine	2.17	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the most doctors per person?: Georgia has the most doctors per person in Asia: 5.64 doctors per 1,000 people (2023). Next come Mongolia (4.13 doctors per 1,000 people) and Israel (3.80 doctors per 1,000 people).
Which country in Asia has the fewest doctors per person?: Yemen, with 0.10 doctors per 1,000 people (2023).
What is the typical doctors of a country in Asia?: The median of the 46 countries in Asia is 1.91 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 2023. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

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.