Table 1.
2020 demographic distribution by gender, Hispanic ethnicity and race of the U.S. population, U.S. medical school graduates, diagnostic radiology applicants, residents, practicing physicians and faculty members
| Gender | Ethnicity | Race | Total Non-duplicated |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Men | Women | Hispanic | Non-Hispanic | White | Asian | Black | AI/AN/NH/PI | Multi-race | |
| 2020 U.S.Census | 163.2 M (49.2) | 168.6 M (50.8) | 60.7 M (18.5) | 197.2 M (60.1) | 250.4 M (76.3) | 19.4 M (5.9) | 44.0 M (13.4) | 4.9 M (1.5) | 9.2 M (2.8) | 328,239,523 |
| U.S.medical school graduates | 10,280 (50.4) | 10,110 (49.5) | 1,063 (5.3) | 504 (2.5) | 10,897 (54.6) | 4,299 (21.6) | 1,238 (6.2) | 47 (0.3) | 1,598 (8.0) | 20,390 |
| Diagnostic radiology applicantsa | 1,743 (72.5) | 662 (27.5) | 171 (8.1) | 254 (12.1) | 986 (47.1) | 528 (25.2) | 132 (6.3) | 21 (1.0) | 2,405 | |
| Diagnostic radiology residentsb | 3,459 (73.5) | 1,244 (26.5) | 302 (6.9) | 222 (5.0) | 2,583 (59.2) | 1,190 (27.8) | 173 (3.9) | 8 (0.2) | 187 (4.3) | 4,703 |
| Diagnostic radiology practicing physicians | 20,595 (73.5) | 7,413 (26.5) | 1,106 (4.4) | 480 (1.9) | 18,252 (73.0) | 4,240 (16.9) | 658 (2.6) | 75 (0.3) | 187 (0.7) | 28,008 |
| Diagnostic radiology facultyc | 7,161 (70.1) | 3,052 (29.9) | 239 (2.5) | 216 (2.2) | 5,915 (62.0) | 2,718 (28.5) | 228 (2.3) | 21 (0.2) | 198 (2.0) | 10,213 |
Based on comparison of the 2010 and 2020 U.S. censuses, numbers in bold represent increases, italics represent declines; percentages for both are in parentheses for the U.S. population, U.S. medical school graduates, radiology applicants, residents, practicing physicians and radiology faculty members (Comparison of data abstracted from [5])
AI/AN/NH/PI American Indian/Alaskan native/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, M million
a Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) data include other race/ethnicity and unknown race/ethnicity, and do not have a multi-race designation
b Includes diagnostic radiology and interventional-radiology-integrated residents with International Medical Graduate (IMG) pathway, U.S. and Canadian medical graduates and U.S. doctor of osteopathic medicine graduates
c Number of full-time faculty at all U.S. medical schools as of Dec. 31, 2020