Table 1.

Population, stroke incidence, and the numbers of neurologists and neurosurgeons

Country	Population (millions)	Ischaemic strokes*	Haemorrhagic strokes*	Neurologists	Neurosurgeons
Australia	22.3	30	9	456	120
Austria	8.3	19	6	582	100
Bangladesh	152.5	96	49	110	113
Belgium	10.9	25	7	530	180
Brazil	193.3	313	116	5 000	3500
Canada	34.1	67	16	881	306
Chile	17.1	15	9	244	114
China	1341.3	3308	2305	15 000	6000
Czech Republic	10.5	43	10	1100	85
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	67.5	37	20	49	4
Denmark	5.5	14	5	237	110
Egypt	86.2	72	25	500	700
Estonia	1.3	13	2	110	15
Ethiopia	86.6	50	34	26	10
Finland	5.4	21	7	323	65
France	63.0	119	40	2 100	450
Germany	81.8	285	86	4 238	1464
Greece	11.3	25	8	832	200
Hungary	10.0	55	12	867	108
India	1224.6	1098	472	1 100	1500
Indonesia	239.9	245	195	1 200	240
Iran	77.3	288	63	700	500
Ireland	4.5	7	2	61	28
Israel	7.6	10	3	432	56
Italy	60.5	111	33	3 000	720
Japan	128.1	458	180	5 122	7207
Mexico	108.4	89	35	1 141	956
Myanmar	56.2	49	38	22	13
Netherlands	16.6	27	9	845	130
New Zealand	4.4	6	2	40	21
Nigeria	173.6	96	57	80	25
Norway	4.9	10	3	324	70
Pakistan	186.0	114	54	120	150
Philippines	99.3	73	44	270	52
Poland	38.2	116	32	3000	400
Portugal	10.6	27	11	314	140
Russia	142.5	847	124	8000	2900
Slovakia	5.4	18	4	700	75
Slovenia	2.0	8	2	143	20
South Africa	56.0	49	30	155	182
South Korea	49.4	77	36	1 920	2740
Spain	46.1	102	32	1 607	442
Sweden	9.4	27	7	316	120
Switzerland	7.8	17	5	546	169
Thailand	65.9	114	67	750	350
Turkey	72.7	75	26	1 725	1500
United Kingdom	61.3	112	34	694	265
United States	309.3	755	188	16 366	3500
Vietnam	89.7	94	85	400	250
Total in the study	5567	9726	4638	84 278	38 478
Non-study countries	1585 (22%)	1844 (16%)	687 (13%)

^*Incidence in thousands in the year 2010 according to the Global Burden of Disease Study²⁸