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Table 1. Median number of psychiatrists per 100 000 population.

	2001	2005	2011	2014
Low-income countries	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.1
Lower middle-income countries	0.9	1.05	0.54	0.4
Higher middle-income countries	2.4	2.70	2.03	1.2
High-income countries	9.0	10.5	8.59	6.6
World	1.0	1.20	1.27^a	0.9^a

The slight drop may reflect underreporting in the 2014 survey of psychiatrists working in private practice, which was given emphasis in the 2011 survey.

Source: Data taken from the respective editions of the World Health Organization’s Mental Health Atlas.