chart 16
Number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants : Years 2000 – 2015
25 |
2000 2015 Variation : Years 2000-2015 |
400 % |
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15
10
5
0
-21 %
Austria
19 %
Belgium Czech Republic
132 %
72 % 83 % 63 %
Denmark Estonia
Finland France
40 % 1 %
Germany
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-27 %
Greece
45 % 65 %
Hungary Ireland
|
7 %
Italy
|
112 %
170 %
229 %
64 % 70 % 25 % 25 % 17 %
Latvia Lithuania
Netherlands Poland
Portugal Slovakia
Slovenia Spain
Sweden
70 %
0 %
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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250 % 200 % 150 % 100 % 50 % 0 % -50% |
chart 17
Number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants : Years 2000 – 2015
120 |
2000 2015 Variation : Years 2000-2015 |
2816 % |
3000 % |
100 |
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2500 % |
80 |
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2000 % |
60 |
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1500 %
1000 %
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40
20
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-6 % 11 % 1 % -11 % 68 % -3 % 71 % 35 % 19 % -1 % -25 % |
278 % 187 % 5 % -58% 53 % 57 % -2% 13 % 9 % 9 % 63 % 10 % |
500 %
0 %
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0
Austria
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Belgium
Czech Republic
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Denmark |
Estonia |
Finland |
France |
Germany |
Greece |
Hungary |
Ireland |
Italy |
Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg
Netherlands
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Poland |
Portugal
Slovak Republic
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Slovenia |
Spain |
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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-500 % |
( full or part time ) were approximately 50 – 60 % of the total , with the highest rates registered in Estonia ( 67.5 %), Switzerland ( 70.5 %) and France ( 77.2 %). By contrast , the lowest values regard Greece ( 34.7 %), the Netherlands ( 41.5 %) and Finland ( 45.8 %).
The most relevant positive variations on the number of physicians per 100,000 working in hospital between 2000 and 2015 were in Switzerland (+ 40 %), Germany (+ 42 %), Denmark (+ 43 %) and Lithuania (+ 53 %). By contrast , there were negative variations in Italy ( -3 %), Belgium ( -2 %) and Poland ( -2 %).
In 2015 , the average number of medical and nurses graduates for every 100,000 inhabitants were respectively about 13.6 and 41.4 in the EU ; however , the values across countries were quite different . The number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 9.0 and 9.3 in
France and Greece to 19.5 and 23.7 in Denmark and Ireland . The number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 12.8 and 15.8 in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic to 92.4 and 93.4 in Denmark and Switzerland .
Compared with 2000 , the number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants in EU registered a positive variation in the three Baltic countries ( on average , around + 200 %), Portugal (+ 170 %) and Slovenia (+ 229 %). Conversely , according to data , the variation was negative in Austria ( -21 %) and Greece ( -27 %). The number of nurses graduated per 100,000 in the EU member states belonging to the OECD increased in Latvia (+ 187 %) and Italy (+ 278 %) and registered a remarkable positive variation in Poland (+ 2816 %). The trend was negative in the years considered in Ireland ( -25 %) and Luxembourg ( -58 %).
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References 1 Despite the last update reported of Health For All Database is February 2018 , some of the indicators extracted by such database have been last updated in September 2017 ( Public-sector expenditure on health as % of total government expenditure , WHO estimates ) and January 2018 ( Private inpatient hospital beds as % of all beds ). 2 A System of Health Accounts 2011 , Revised edition - pp . 175 & 178 . OECD . 3 Ibidem p . 178 .