CHART 16
Number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants: Years 2006–2016
2006
2016
Variation: Years 2006 - 2016
25
200%
192%
149%
20
150%
120%
113%
103%
15
100%
63%
10
33%
27%
71%
50%
33%
24%
7%
5
60%
50%
43%
73%
17%
6%
16%
11%
1%
0%
-20%
-50%
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-37%
0
CHART 17
Number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants: Years 2006–2016
2006
120
2016
Variation: Years 2006 - 2016
80%
75%
63%
100
60%
49%
80
24%
18%
20%
19%
-4%
20%
15%
5%
60
40%
30%
28%
3%
-7%
-1%
-7%
-17%
-11%
-23%
40
5%
-25%
-24%
0%
-20%
-40%
20
-60%
-80%
0
-68%
Netherlands (39%), Poland (45%) and Finland (46%).
The most relevant positive variations on the
number of physicians working in hospital between
2006 and 2016 were registered in Switzerland
(+49%), Germany (+34%) and Hungary (+32%). By
contrast, this indicator registered negative
variations in Poland (–2%) and Greece (–9%).
In 2016, the average number of physicians and
nurses graduated for every 100,000 inhabitants
were respectively about 14 and 42 in the EU;
however, the values across countries were quite
different. The number of medical graduates per
100,000 inhabitants ranged from 9 in France and
Greece to 24 and 22 in Ireland and Denmark,
respectively (Chart 16). The number of nurses
graduated per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 15
and 16 in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic to
99 and 104 in Switzerland and Denmark (Chart 17).
Compared with 2006, the number of medical
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graduates per 100,000 inhabitants in the EU
registered an overall positive variation. The
countries that registered the highest increases
were Portugal (+109%), Belgium (+137%), Slovenia
(+156%) and Latvia (+158%). Minor positive
variations occurred in Germany (+11%), Sweden
(+11%), Denmark (+12%) and Estonia (+13%).
Decreases happened in Greece (–37%) and Austria
(–16%). The number of nurses graduated per
100,000 inhabitants registered different trends
across the EU. Major positive variations were
registered in Belgium (+75%) and Switzerland
(+63%), whereas minor positive variations were
registered in Latvia (+3%) and Hungary (+5%).
Negative variations ranged from –1% and –4%
respectively in Poland and Austria, to –24% and
–25% in Slovakia and Portugal. The most relevant
decrease was registered in the Czech Republic
(–68%) in the same years.