Licensed physicians [tps00167]

Physicians (medical doctors) as defined by ISCO 88 (code 2221) apply preventive and curative measures, improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods and conduct research in the area of medicine and health care. Physicians may be counted according to different concepts such as "practising", "professionally active" or "licensed to practice". Physicians licensed to practice are practising physicians, professionally active and economically active physicians as well as all physicians being registered and entitled to practice as health care professionals.

Updated by provider on October 22, 2022 (12:32 AM)

Frequency [FREQ]
Unit of measure [unit]
Activity and employment status [wstatus]
International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) [isco08]
Geopolitical entity (reporting) [geo]

Dataset has 28 series. Add search filters to narrow them.

Dimension codes and labels
[FREQ] Frequency
  • [A] Annual
[unit] Unit of measure
  • [P_HTHAB] Per hundred thousand inhabitants
[wstatus] Activity and employment status
  • [LIC] Licensed to practice
[isco08] International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08)
  • [OC221] Medical doctors
[geo] Geopolitical entity (reporting)
  • [BE] Belgium
  • [CY] Cyprus
  • [CZ] Czechia
  • [DE] Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG)
  • [DK] Denmark
  • [EE] Estonia
  • [EL] Greece
  • [ES] Spain
  • [FI] Finland
  • [HR] Croatia
  • [HU] Hungary
  • [IE] Ireland
  • [IS] Iceland
  • [IT] Italy
  • [LI] Liechtenstein
  • [LT] Lithuania
  • [LU] Luxembourg
  • [LV] Latvia
  • [ME] Montenegro
  • [MT] Malta
  • [NL] Netherlands
  • [NO] Norway
  • [PL] Poland
  • [PT] Portugal
  • [RO] Romania
  • [RS] Serbia
  • [SE] Sweden
  • [UK] United Kingdom
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