Table 1.

Distribution of rheumatologists across LA countries^a

Country	Population (million)	Rheumatologists	Proportion of rheumatologist/inhabitants (1/100,000)
Argentina	42.0	850	2.0
Bolivia	10.0	30	0.3
Brazil	200.0	1543	0.8
Chile	17.3	146	0.8
Colombia	44.0	136	0.3
Costa Rica	4.6	21	0.5
Dominican Republic	9.5	18	0.2
Ecuador	14.5	52	0.4
El Salvador	6.7	16	0.2
Guatemala	14.1	32	0.2
Honduras	8.2	13	0.2
Mexico	112.0	568	0.5
Nicaragua	5.3	4	0.1
Panama	3.4	14	0.4
Paraguay	6.5	16	0.2
Peru	29.0	172	0.6
Uruguay	3.3	105	3.2
Venezuela	29.0	157	0.5
Total	559.4	3893	0.7

^aAdapted from Caballero Uribe CV [44] and Al Maini M et al. [45]