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Health, Pharma & Medtech ›. Health Professionals & Hospitals. Physicians in Canada - statistics & facts. Canada. Over recent years, the number of physicians increased steadily in Canada. In...
In 2023, there were 97,384 physicians in Canada, representing 243 physicians per 100,000 population. While the supply of physicians grew 1.4% compared with 2022, the increase was driven exclusively by specialist physicians (2.9%).
Canada's population increased by 4.6 per cent between 2014 and 2018, while the number of physicians grew by 12.5 per cent over the same time period, says the report released Thursday.
Number of family medicine and general practice physicians in Canada as of 2022, by province*
Physicians (per 1,000 people) - Canada. World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD, supplemented by country data.
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s (CIHI) annual physician report released on Oct. 26, Canada has more doctors than ever. There were almost 2,000 more doctors in Canada in 2022.
Canada has 2.7 physicians per 1,000 population (including residents) compared to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of 3.5 (2017 or nearest year). Canada’s phys/pop ratio ranks 29 out of 36 nations ahead of the US, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Korea, and Turkey.
Excludes medical residents and physicians over age 80. Includes non-clinicians and physician who work primarily in administrative positions, who maintain a licensed to practice. Inlcude part-time and semi-retired physicians.
Canada had more than 96,000 doctors at last count in 2022. That’s just over two doctors for every 1,000 people in the country. Roughly half of these are family doctors – the ones you’d normally see first when you’re sick or need health advice.
While estimates vary, there may be as many as 13,000 medical doctors in Canada who are not practising because they haven't completed a two-year residency position — a requirement for...