# EU countries by physicians per 10,000 people, 2023

All 25 values come from World Health Organization for 2023, so the places are comparable. 2 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `physicians_per_10k`
- Unit: per 10,000 people
- Definition: Physicians per 10,000 population: generalists, specialist medical practitioners and medical doctors not further defined (ISCO-08 codes 221, 2211 and 2212), as reported to WHO's National Health Workforce Accounts, divided by the national population. Depending on the country's source, the count covers practising physicians only or all registered physicians.
- Source: World Health Organization, Density of physicians (per 10 000 population) (HWF_0001) (https://data.who.int/indicators/i/CCCEBB2/217795A)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-health-organization
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: World Health Organization, data.who.int. Density of physicians (per 10 000 population) (HWF_0001) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/CCCEBB2/217795A (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/physicians-per-10000-people/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | per 10,000 people |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 67.12 |
| 2 | Portugal | 60.22 |
| 3 | Austria | 55.15 |
| 4 | Italy | 53.06 |
| 5 | Malta | 47.19 |
| 6 | Lithuania | 46.45 |
| 7 | Germany | 45.93 |
| 8 | Denmark | 45.3 |
| 9 | Spain | 44.29 |
| 10 | Bulgaria | 43.92 |
| 11 | Czechia | 42.39 |
| 12 | France | 40.09 |
| 13 | Croatia | 39.73 |
| 14 | Ireland | 38.75 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 38.68 |
| 16 | Cyprus | 38.06 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 37.61 |
| 18 | Romania | 37.12 |
| 19 | Poland | 36.49 |
| 20 | Hungary | 35.87 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 35.07 |
| 22 | Estonia | 34.9 |
| 23 | Belgium | 33.91 |
| 24 | Latvia | 33.52 |
| 25 | Finland | 28.75 |